[B-Greek] Aorist Subjunctive in 1 Jn 1:9
Nikolaos Adamou
ntgreekreader at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 15:47:03 EDT 2011
It is the 3rd structure of a hypothetical case
ἐὰν + subjunctive , ἀόριστος (past)
ἐὰν ὁμολογῶμεν - ἀφῇ + καθαρίσῃ
it is used to indicate the something is repeated in the past and in the future
http://users.sch.gr/papangel/sch/anc/ph10.ipothetiki_logi.pdf
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> Mark L
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> From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> To: Renwick Preston <presto47 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sat, April 2, 2011 4:48:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Aorist Subjunctive in 1 Jn 1:9
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> On Apr 2, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Renwick Preston wrote:
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>> Why is the word for forgive in this verse an aorist?
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> It's a lot easier to answer this sort of a question if we have the text before
> us:
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> 1John 1:9 ἐὰν ὁμολογῶμεν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν, πιστός ἐστιν καὶ δίκαιος, ἵνα ἀφῇ
> ἡμῖν τὰς ἁμαρτίας καὶ καθαρίσῃ ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ πάσης ἀδικίας.
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> [1John 1:9 EAN hOMOLOGWMEN TAS hAMARTIAS hHMWN, PISTOS ESTIN KAI DIKAIOS, hINA
> AFHi hHMIN TAS hAMARTIAS KAI KAQARISHi hHMAS APO PASHS ADIKIAS. ]
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> I would think it's because God's forgiveness is thought of as a single act
> rather than as an ongoing one.
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> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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