I noticed the modern greek translates(?) this as: EGW QELW EXEI THN PEPOIQHSIN MOU EP AUTONOLB_Greek, and I'm wondering if the perfect form after a future might function as a noun, like an infinitive does occasionally. "I shall have confidence in him" or something of that nature. Steve >At 8:21 PM -0400 8/19/98, Jonathan Robie wrote: >>How should I understand this: >> >>Hebr 2:13 EGW ESOMAI PEPOIQWS EP AUTWi >> >>The use of tenses is confusing me... > >Well, one could argue that this is another of those periphrastic future >perfects, active in this instance--or one could argue that PEPOIQWS is here >functioning as a predicate adjective rather than as part of a periphrastic >future perfect. > >In either case the meaning will be pretty much the same because the the >(First) perfect PEPOIQA is a stative (like OIDA and many another First >Perfect--i.e. perfects of the older sort without a Kappa stem) with an >intransitive sense best translated as a present tense: "I am fully >confident." Accordingly ESOMAI PEPOIQWS is more or less equivalent to an >intransitive PISTEUSW. > >Carl W. Conrad >Department of Classics/Washington University >One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018 >Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649 >cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cconrad@yancey.main.nc.us >WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/ > >--- >B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek >You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu] >To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-329W@franklin.oit.unc.edu >To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu ___________________________________ Steve Long steve@allegrographics.com ___________________________________ --- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-329W@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu