From: yochanan bitan (ButhFam@compuserve.com)
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 08:44:10 EST
{greg kilbrai wrote}
>But in the Greek, the touching/healing warrants just an Aorist as if it
was of little
>consequence, a mere backdrop to the story. Instead in the Greek, the
>emphasis in the story is on Simon's mother-in-law's burning (imperf)
>fever, the disciples coversation (present) with Jesus about it, and
>Simon's m-i-law's serving (imperfect) them after the fever left her.{end
quote}
we need to have a talk and read together sometime. you are making good
observations but you need to hit the 'invert screen' button on your syntax
filter.
the aorist (simple past tense in the indicative, and yes i am fully aware
of a few other idiomatic special cases in the indicative) carries the main
event of the episode. the other material in the imperfects are background
description. this is the same function and relationship,e.g, that one
finds in french narrative.
the burning fever was a situation, the disciples "present" statement was a
forward looking, preliminary event, the aorists were the decisive events,
and the final imperfect was a grammatical fade-out to the scene. [these
things are part of what is called textlinguistics. and jerusalem is a nice
place for reading greek. paul thought so.]
erroso
randall
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