[B-Greek] future indicative in Jonah 1:11 (Joseph Justiss)

John Sanders john.franklin.sanders at gmail.com
Thu May 19 01:36:51 EDT 2011


I would think you should consider how the moods of the verbs play off one
another in a sentence construction.  I believe that I once read that the
subjunctive and optative moods in Greek can be thought as *irrealis *with
the indicative as *reallis.  *I would take the *irrealis *of the subjunctive
as in reference to conditions not existing (with the optative in reference
to conditions existing-but that is pre-koine Greek, for the most part).



The first part, TI SOI POIHSWMEN, the *irrealis *is in question form-what
should we do with you?  The second part is in *reallis*, the answer to
the *irrealis
*question is expected to be something in *reallis*, something that will
actually happen.



POIHSWMEN is asking to do something that presently is not in existence, but
whatever is decided, it is expected that it will bring into existence
KOPASEI H QALASSA.
John Sanders
Suzhou, China

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Joseph Justiss <jljustiss at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if you all can help explain the use of the future
> indicative
> in Jonah 1:11 after the subjunctive in the sailors' question. It seems to
> me
> the future mainly marks a result in this type of construction. Is this
> something inherent within the semantics of the future, or is this a special
> pragmatic use in certain types of interrogative clauses, or subjuntive
> settings? I think the same thing happens in the last clause of Matthew
> 13:15
>
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