Re: present indicative in Rom 6:14-24

From: Bryan Rocine (brocine@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Apr 14 1999 - 15:51:00 EDT


Dear Carl,

you wrote:
Bryan wrote:
> >Here is about where my question comes in. If the passage does indeed
> >utilize a "rhetorical" present, I assume Paul anticipates his readers
won't
> >have nearly so much trouble understanding the rhetorical usage as all
those
> >commentators! Your suggestion that this passage may amount to an example
of
> >the "historical present" is helpful. Is that my answer? Or can the list
> >point to other Greek literature in which a distinctly rhetorical use of
the
> >present is found, not of the historical present per se, i.e., some of
that
> >"quite a bit of ancient literary and rhetorical models that could
illuminate
> >the question."
>
> One other Pauline example of rhetorical usage of the present tense in the
> first person comes immediately to mind: 1 Cor 13: EAN TAIS GLWSSAIS TWN
> ANQRWPWN LALW KAI TWN AGGELWN ...

But isn't 1 Cor 13:1-2 present *subjunctive* as made implied by v. 2's EIDW,
so that the whole construction is a protasis-apodosis construction?

Thanks,
Bryan

B. M. Rocine
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