CWestf5155@aol.com said: > Aspect indicates the author's choice of a verb to convey a given > perspective. > In your given example, it would have been possible to convey the > meaning of transfer with an aorist, and it still would not be > semantically inconsistent with an existing state. It would have been > possible to convey the meaning of transfer with a present (and that > would make it structurally connected to the presents ECEI ZWHN > AIWNION and EIS KRISIN OUK ERCETAI). > John 5:24 > AMHN AMHN LEGW hUMIN hOTI hO TON LOGON MOU AKOUWN KAI PISTEUWN TWi > PEMYANTI ME ECEI ZWHN AIWNION KAI EIS KRISIN OUK ERCETAI, ALLA > *METABEBHKEN* EK TOU QANATOU EIS THN ZWHN. Cindy, Allow me to push this a little, so as to clarify my understanding of aspect as you understand it. Perhaps this has been answered and I've just missed it. There seems to me to be interesting interplay going on between the lexical and aspectual parts of METABEBHKEN. METABAINW is, by itself, not a point action. It expresses some sense of movement, unlike, say, FRASSW or maybe GINWSKW. In a sense there is a `lexical aspect' and a `syntactic aspect'. So... Which is the more accurate in understanding METABEBHKEN EK TOU QANATOU EIS THN ZWHN: That the people Jesus is referring to 1. Moved from the state of death to the state of life. 2. Were in a state of transfer from death to life. 3. Have arrived at a final state made explicit by EIS... (barely different from `1'.) Note that it is difficult for me to word the question (in English) and not implicitly refer to tense (time). And I hope you see the nature of my question. I want to ATTACH the nature of aspect to the verb and not to the objects of the prepositions and yet it seems far more natural to me, both semantically and theologically to do the later. Or am I just confused? Thanks ahead of time. --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu