From: Justin (jwinger@westmont.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 15 1998 - 13:29:15 EDT
Carl:
I am sorry... I am not clear on what you are saying. I *think* that you are
saying that this verse should therefore be translated "Walk by the Spirit and
DO NOT carry out the desires of the flesh" (as opposed to "Walk by the Spirit
and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh"). Is this correct? And,
if I am understanding everybody correctly, this is in disagreement with Paul
Zellmer's posting that Zerwick was correct in calling it an emphatic negative
of future reference (wouldn't that be "you will not carry out..."?). I will
look up what Robertson, Burton, and Moulton have to say on this subject, but I
haven't had time to yet. Which is the correct translation? Thanks for your input.
Justin
Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
> At 1:44 PM +0300 7/15/98, Timo Flink wrote:
> >Howdy :)
> >
> >I ran a test in BibleWorks (AGNT2) and it reports 76 hits for "OU MH +
> >some aor. subj."
> >
> >As I'm not a native English speaker, this might be complitely wrong, but
> >could that be expressed something like:
> >
> >"by no means you might do this and that"
> >
> >Just a thought... Yes I know, sounds like an imperative....
>
> In the original question Zerwick was cited as saying this (OU MH + aorist
> subj.) is the strongest possible Greek form of stating the imperative
> notion. A Latin equivalent is NE + perfect subjunctive with the sense, like
> that of the Greek construction, "Don't ever xxxx ..." or "You are not ever
> to xxxx ..." Now archaic English would have put it: "You SHALL not xxxx ..."
>
> Carl W. Conrad
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