Help with Gal 5:16

From: Lex Kuhta (lexkuhta@deltanet.com)
Date: Mon Apr 27 1998 - 03:51:16 EDT


I'm looking for some help with Gal 5:16

PNEUMATI PERIPATEITE KAI EPIQUMIAN SARKOS OU MH TELESHTE

in/by the Spirit walk/live and the agenda of the flesh...

TELESHTE is aorist subjunctive. But how should it be translated?

A) future: you will never ever carry out.
B) imperative: do not carry out.

Option A renders the conditional imperative but seems to imply it is
possible not to sin. Option B does not imply it is possible not to sin
but moves the emphatic future negation to more of a prohibitoty or
hortative subjunctive. I've read Brooks and Winbery, as well as Wallace,
and cannot come to a resolution on how to translate this passage. I
don't want to start an argument about the possibility of sin but rather
to gather some takes on the potentialities of the syntax in this verse.

Help!!!



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