John 5:46 - Yet Another Conditionals Question

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Wed Dec 23 1998 - 19:55:00 EST


A rather long time ago, Carl Conrad wrote:

>BUT--the imperfect (indicative) retains one function in Koine that it had
>in Classical Attic: it is used in both protasis and apodosis of present
>counterfactual conditions. I've never been able to figure out a good reason
>why the indicative should function in Greek for a counterfactual
>condition--but of course the aorist indicative does so in past
>counterfactual conditions also.

Are imperfects in the protasis and apodosis always *present* counterfactual
conditions? Consider the following:

Matt 23:30

EI HMEQA EN TAIS hHMERAIS TWN PATERWN hHMWN, OUK AN HMEQA AUTWN KOINWNOI EN
TWi hAIMATI TWN PROFHTWN

Jonathan
 
jonathan@texcel.no
Texcel Research
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