From: gat (gat@dom.vr.pl)
Date: Thu Apr 02 1998 - 14:35:57 EST
In 1 John 1,1 there is a very interesting change of tenses:
hO AKHKOAMEN (perf.) - what we have heard
hO EWRAKAMEN (perf.) TOIS OFQALMOIS hHMWN - what we have seen with our eyes
and then it changes to aorist:
hO EQEASAMEQA (aor.) - what we looked at
KAI hAI XEIRES hHMWN EYHLAFHSAN (aor.) - and touched with our hands
Why is the change of tenses? One could simply say that John speaks twice
about the same thing (have seen, looked at) and just for a change he is
using once perf. and once aor. tense. Is it significant or it doesn't
matter?
Any comments?
Gregor P. Turkanik
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student of Biblical Studies
at Christian Academy of Theology
in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: gat@dom.vr.pl
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