suffering through Hermas

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jun 12 12:45:57 EDT 2000


At 11:18 AM -0400 6/12/00, Bart Ehrman wrote:
>   In Shepherd 76:4 (not in Lake's edition, which has a different text
>here) we read TINES DE EX AUTWN KAI PAQOUNTAI KAI hHDEWS QLIBONTAI ....,
>something like, "but some of them both suffer and are gladly
>afflicted."  Well, I guess.  What is the form PAQOUNTAI?

Well, I can't say for sure but it certainly looks to me like a new present
tense PAQEOMAI formed from the second-aorist stem of PASCW. But that's what
you already surmised, isn't it? I think it's not uncommon for new
present-tense stems to be formed from strong-aorist stems.

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Carl W. Conrad
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