[B-Greek] Temporal Deixis & Revelation 20:4
waldo slusher
waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 9 17:56:39 EST 2004
Dr. Brown:
You have selected a good passage for our discussions
because as you indicated, this is a prophetic vision.
If we take the DC as the time of writing, then the
Aorists are most awkward. But if you take the vision
as one that John saw (Aorist) in its entirity, from
beginning to end, then the Aorists make perfect sense.
As John records the contents of this vision for his
readers, it was all in the past from the standpoint of
the vision he HAD, but all in the future from the
standpoint of writing. This is why I feel it critical
that the DC be allowed to be developed by the writer
rather than forced upon him by virtue of WHEN he
chooses to physically write.
Begin, if you like, with the DEFAULT DC as the time of
writing, but be quick to abandon that should the genre
dictate. If the literary piece is historical or
prophetic, I would instinctively assume a contextually
developed DC, one unrelated to WHEN the author
physically grabs his pen.
Waldo
--- "A. Philip Brown II" <pbrown at GBS.EDU> wrote:
> Ive followed with interest the interchange
> regarding the nature of temporal
> deixis.
>
> I would be interested in hearing how Waldo, Kimmo,
> and others would analyze
> the temporal deixis of Revelation 20:4, taking into
> account the time of John
> s writing, the fact that the events he describes
> are yet future, but he saw
> them take place, hence they were past to him, etc.
>
> Kai eidon qronouS kai ekaqisan ep autouS kai krima
> edoqh autoiS kai taS
> yucaS twn pepelekismenwn dia thn marturian Ihsou kai
> dia ton logon tou qeou
> kai oitineS ou prosekunhsan to qhrion oude thn
> eikona autou kai ouk elabon
> to caragma epi to metwpon kai epi thn ceira autwn.
> kai ezhsan kai
> ebasileusan meta tou Cristou cilia eth.
>
> Philip Brown
>
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