[b-greek] Fwd: Re: Aorist never codes an open situation? - to Kimmo

From: Randall Buth (ButhFam@compuserve.com)
Date: Mon Dec 18 2000 - 18:25:04 EST


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>Porter's view ...
He would say that the use of the aorist is
making the most general statement possible without elaboration--God loved
the
world--without any information coded in the verb about when it started or
stopped, or whether it was punctilliar or repeated, or whether it could be
counted or not.<

I believe you've just described,
-don't you love it?-
a simple past tense, "God loved the world".

ERRWSO
Randall Buth

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