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by Stephen Carlson
September 19th, 2012, 3:38 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: ANGELO of Rev 2:1
Replies: 29
Views: 10511

Re: ANGELO of Rev 2:1

Thanks for the cite to Wallace. It is interesting. I have to say that I've read Gal 2:8 many times and never thought of it as a dative of instrument. Rather, it appears to me to be, not an instrumental dative, but a locative dative, e.g., a dative of sphere. That Wallace has to suppose that Peter an...
by Stephen Carlson
September 19th, 2012, 3:32 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Matt 3:2 μετανοεῖτε
Replies: 17
Views: 5496

Re: Matt 3:2 μετανοεῖτε

Scott, Let me try to distinguish some concepts. Most linguists today adopt a bidimensional aspectual system that distinguishes "aspect" (a.k.a. grammatical aspect or "viewpoint" aspect) and "Aktionsart" (a.k.a. lexical aspect or "situation type" [Carlota Smith...
by Stephen Carlson
September 17th, 2012, 9:40 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: ANGELO of Rev 2:1
Replies: 29
Views: 10511

Re: ANGELO of Rev 2:1

Joe Rutherford wrote:The 'instrumental dative' indicates the instrument with which one does something.
It's my impression that the instrumental dative works with non-animate objects, not a human. Do you have examples of instrumental datives for people?
by Stephen Carlson
September 17th, 2012, 5:56 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Matt 3:2 μετανοεῖτε
Replies: 17
Views: 5496

Matt 3:2 μετανοεῖτε

Matt 3:2 presents John the Baptist's famous preaching as follows:
Matt 3:2 wrote:Μετανοεῖτε · ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἣ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.
Repent! For the kingdom of God has come near.
What's the sense of the present imperative here?
by Stephen Carlson
September 15th, 2012, 11:52 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: verbless conditional Gal. 3:18 what mood?
Replies: 13
Views: 4111

Re: verbless conditional Gal. 3:18 what mood?

Louis L Sorenson wrote:Funk, A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek §857.4
Contrary to classical usage, ἄv is sometimes omitted in the apodosis:
(Cf. Jn 15:22, 24; Gal 4:15.
Some later MSS of Gal will supply the ἄv in 4:15.
by Stephen Carlson
September 13th, 2012, 2:39 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Noun Case Endings & Verb Endings
Replies: 25
Views: 9416

Re: Noun Case Endings & Verb Endings

MAubrey wrote:As for Thrax, his audience was Alexandrian. We only have a handful of lines that can be confidently attributed to him. The rest of "his" grammar is from a few hundred years after he lived. It's audience is rather highly disputed.
What's the audience of the expanded grammar? Is it Roman?
by Stephen Carlson
September 13th, 2012, 2:23 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: ANASTASIS in Acts 17:18
Replies: 4
Views: 11537

Re: ANASTASIS in Acts 17:18

NA27 does not give any variant reading with Anastasia (though it is not exhaustive). I would avoid such works and authors. I hope they're not scholarly.
by Stephen Carlson
September 12th, 2012, 7:00 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Passages with Historic Present
Replies: 6
Views: 1454

Re: Passages with Historic Present

Is a Present Tense Indicative verb considered a Historic Present IF the Present Tense verb is concurrent with the contextually developed Deictic Center? That is, the HP is Present Time in relation to the DC (whenever this takes place in time). In searching the archives, this question was raised but...
by Stephen Carlson
September 12th, 2012, 6:59 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Passages with Historic Present
Replies: 6
Views: 1454

Re: Passages with Historic Present

dwalt wrote:Manually tally up the times the English translates the Greek with a past tense.
If I recall correctly, there used to be an edition of the NASB that marked with an asterisk (*) those historical presents translated with the preterite.
by Stephen Carlson
September 11th, 2012, 3:05 am
Forum: Seen on the Web
Topic: Raphael Kuhner on the Greek verb
Replies: 2
Views: 1344

Re: Raphael Kuhner on the Greek verb

Thanks for the post, Mike. By the way, I've recently come across a review article on aspect that summarizes the complex state-of-art a decade ago: Sasse, H.-J. (2002). Recent activity in the theory of aspect: Accomplishments, achievements, or just non-progressive state? Linguistic Typology , 6(2), 1...

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