[B-Greek] Fw: Aorist Subjunctive in 1 Jn 1:9
Eddie Mishoe
edmishoe at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 5 21:50:32 EDT 2011
Alastair,
Please feel free to respond offlist, since it looks like this passage has already been tackled in the last couple of days.
Regarding this observation by NA (I did not see his/her original post, so this is all I have to go off of):
> From: Nikolaos Adamou
> 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
CC: "rather than as an ongoing one"
NA: "repeated in the past and in the future"
3rd structure of not, in 1 Jn 1.9 there is no reference to any future consequence. It is true that any tense can be used in an iterative context, but to appeal to some iterative narrative here, where no narrative has been introduced, makes the choice of an iterative somewhat random. [I am unable to read your modern Greek pdf; can you convert the significant portions of this file into English.]
Eddie Mishoe
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