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by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 22nd, 2023, 1:06 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: ξύλον translated as “tree” in Deuteronomy and Acts
Replies: 11
Views: 5344

Re: ξύλον translated as “tree” in Deuteronomy and Acts

In my opinion yes. Rigid categorization isn't useful, I would rather see these as cognitive processes where there may be several factors working like "magnets" for some grammatical or lexical phenomenon to make them good candidates to be used for certain purposes. To put it in another way,...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 20th, 2023, 4:18 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: ξύλον translated as “tree” in Deuteronomy and Acts
Replies: 11
Views: 5344

Re: ξύλον translated as “tree” in Deuteronomy and Acts

The linguistic phenomenon itself isn't anything special or rare, in general a word for material can be used for anything consisting of that material. For example glass in English (Merriam-Webster): 1: any of various amorphous materials formed from a melt by cooling to rigidity without crystallizatio...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 2nd, 2023, 2:24 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17
Replies: 16
Views: 5649

Re: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17

Thanks Eeli, but my thinking is that gaining some broader perspective (Classical Greek) will eventually help me understand Koine better. There's no need for the "but" there because most probably everyone writing in this forum agrees with you, including me. I didn't mean it's of no use, on...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 2nd, 2023, 11:53 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17
Replies: 16
Views: 5649

Re: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17

Despite its size CGGoCG is a basic grammar and quite terse about many subjects, especially for our purposes because many of the most difficult details to be explained in the NT aren't basics of the Classical grammar. Siebenthal (Ancient Greek Grammar, which is basically a NT grammar but widely infor...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
July 29th, 2023, 1:08 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17
Replies: 16
Views: 5649

Re: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17

And, by the way, because you wrote "But Aorist should normally be translated as simple past tense, right?" etc. and it already stirred further discussion... I'll quote Roberson's number 1 under Tense in full: 1. THE DIFFICULTY OF COMPARING GREEK TENSES WITH GERMANIC TENSES. "The trans...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
July 29th, 2023, 12:59 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17
Replies: 16
Views: 5649

Re: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17

It's worth noting that Campbell discusses the parallel Mark 1:11 in Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek. He applies his notion of "remoteness" as basic semantic value of aorist to this utterance, and it would be the "metaphorical value of distance" which is applied as "...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
July 27th, 2023, 3:31 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17
Replies: 16
Views: 5649

Re: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17

The verb is stative, like with βασιλευω which can mean "begin ruling as king, become king, ascend to the throne" in aorist. It has the beginning of the state in view. This of course may raise theological questions like "well, how come he wasn't pleased at some point in time, that's im...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
July 21st, 2023, 1:45 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: What is purpose and meaning of τῇ in Gal 2:20?
Replies: 19
Views: 7526

Re: What is purpose and meaning of τῇ in Gal 2:20?

But my question is, is it possible to read it the way that the KJV has it? "nevertheless I live; yet not I,..." From my (admittedly dim) knowledge of Greek, what they have done is translated δὲ as "nevertheless," and then translated ζῶ as "I live;" and then looked at t...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
July 1st, 2023, 2:49 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Phillipians 3:3 Is πνεύματι a dative of direct object here?
Replies: 6
Views: 3037

Re: Phillipians 3:3 Is πνεύματι a dative of direct object here?

Whether it's called "direct object" or "indirect" or something else isn't the most relevant question. As we can see even in the beginning of the BDAG quote the default case for the target of worship is dative ("λ. θεῷ"). It's of course interesting why it has been interp...

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