Matt 1:19 wrote:Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς, δίκαιος ὢν καὶ μὴ θέλων αὐτὴν δειγματίσαι, ἐβουλήθη λάθρᾳ ἀπολῦσαι αὐτήν.
What is the interpretation of this aorist ἐβουλήθη in Matt 1:19? How would its meaning or function differ from an imperfect ἐβούλετο?
Matt 1:19 wrote:Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς, δίκαιος ὢν καὶ μὴ θέλων αὐτὴν δειγματίσαι, ἐβουλήθη λάθρᾳ ἀπολῦσαι αὐτήν.
Stephen Carlson wrote:Matt 1:19 wrote:Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς, δίκαιος ὢν καὶ μὴ θέλων αὐτὴν δειγματίσαι, ἐβουλήθη λάθρᾳ ἀπολῦσαι αὐτήν.
What is the interpretation of this aorist ἐβουλήθη in Matt 1:19? How would its meaning or function differ from an imperfect ἐβούλετο?
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:The aorist has an easy explanation if LSJ is correct: "take counsel, deliberate, in past tenses, determine or resolve after deliberation"... "3. c. inf., take counsel, resolve to do". So, he had made up his mind. But would it differ at all from an imperfect if "in past tenses" it means the same?
Stephen Carlson wrote:Matt 1:19 wrote:Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς, δίκαιος ὢν καὶ μὴ θέλων αὐτὴν δειγματίσαι, ἐβουλήθη λάθρᾳ ἀπολῦσαι αὐτήν.
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Stephen Carlson wrote:Matt 1:19 wrote:Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς, δίκαιος ὢν καὶ μὴ θέλων αὐτὴν δειγματίσαι, ἐβουλήθη λάθρᾳ ἀπολῦσαι αὐτήν.
What is the interpretation of this aorist ἐβουλήθη in Matt 1:19? How would its meaning or function differ from an imperfect ἐβούλετο?
Vasile Stancu wrote:Is it the English language filter which triggered the question, or is it the Greek grammar rules that I have come to being accustomed with?' I am proposing this because I (as a Romanian native speaker) would feel no need to analyse such a matter, simply because my language would accept verbs like 'I want' as a fair equivalent for 'I did'. For instance, a conversation in Romanian like this, 'Why did you not come to the party?' 'Because I wanted to spend the evening with my family' makes perfect sense, with no additional questions like, 'Well, I understand that you wanted that, but did you actually do so?'
Stephen Carlson wrote:... Would Romanian not use an imperfect for your example?
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