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- 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...
- 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...
- 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
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?Joe Rutherford wrote:The 'instrumental dative' indicates the instrument with which one does something.
- 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:
What's the sense of the present imperative here?Matt 3:2 wrote:Μετανοεῖτε · ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἣ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.
Repent! For the kingdom of God has come near.
- 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?
Some later MSS of Gal will supply the ἄv in 4:15.Louis L Sorenson wrote:Funk, A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek §857.4Contrary to classical usage, ἄv is sometimes omitted in the apodosis:
(Cf. Jn 15:22, 24; Gal 4:15.
- 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
What's the audience of the expanded grammar? Is it Roman?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.
- 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.
- 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...
- September 12th, 2012, 6:59 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Passages with Historic Present
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1454
Re: Passages with Historic Present
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.dwalt wrote:Manually tally up the times the English translates the Greek with a past tense.
- 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...