[B-Greek] A Perfect Imperfect (Was Hebrews 1:6 and 2:5

Iver Larsen iver_larsen at sil.org
Thu Mar 11 00:53:42 EST 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Lindeman" <oblchurch at msn.com>
To: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>; "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
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Sent: 10. marts 2010 23:05
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] A Perfect Imperfect (Was Hebrews 1:6 and 2:5


> Perhaps HMHN + a noun designating position of office gives to us the
> effective equivalent of a performance verb?
>
> Rich Lindeman

I agree that the position of office comes into play, but I think there is a 
limit to how much juice you can squeeze out of a particular tense used. HMHN is 
a simple past tense, but we do know that there were professional prophets in the 
OT and there were prophet schools whose students were sometimes calls "sons of 
the prophets" (e.g. 1Ki 20:35, 2Ki 2:3). Amos lived about the same time as Micah 
and Isaiah, so he is probably just saying that he was not one of the famous, 
recognized or professional prophets, nor was he studying to become a prophet, 
and he was therefore surprised that God called him to deliver a prophetic 
message. So, he became a prophet even if he was not formerly one. The present 
tense cannot therefore be used.

Iver Larsen 




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