[B-Greek] Aorist Subjunctive in 1 Jn 1:9
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 2 07:42:06 EDT 2011
Apropos of Kevin Edgewood's comment the other day that the variants may be more
euphonic than semantic, did you notice that there is a v.l. with the future
καθαρισει? Of course, the two words may have sounded the same at some point in
the transmission, as they still do some in some of our proforai.
Mark L
Φωσφορος
FWSFOROS MARKOS
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From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: Renwick Preston <presto47 at gmail.com>
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sat, April 2, 2011 4:48:34 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Aorist Subjunctive in 1 Jn 1:9
On Apr 2, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Renwick Preston wrote:
> Why is the word for forgive in this verse an aorist?
It's a lot easier to answer this sort of a question if we have the text before
us:
1John 1:9 ἐὰν ὁμολογῶμεν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν, πιστός ἐστιν καὶ δίκαιος, ἵνα ἀφῇ
ἡμῖν τὰς ἁμαρτίας καὶ καθαρίσῃ ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης ἀδικίας.
[1John 1:9 EAN hOMOLOGWMEN TAS hAMARTIAS hHMWN, PISTOS ESTIN KAI DIKAIOS, hINA
AFHi hHMIN TAS hAMARTIAS KAI KAQARISHi hHMAS APO PASHS ADIKIAS. ]
I would think it's because God's forgiveness is thought of as a single act
rather than as an ongoing one.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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