Re: John 8:58

• To: Travis Bauer <bauer@acc.jc.edu>
• Subject: Re: John 8:58
• From: Carl W Conrad <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
• Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 16:14:58 -0600 (CST)
• Cc: JoRiz@aol.com, b-GREEK@virginia.edu
• In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9412071347.C20289-0100000@acc.jc.edu>

Yes, I am well aware there's an imperfect, which is really a secondary 
tense of the present; what I meant is that of the three systems of the 
language, present, aorist, and perfect, EINAI has only the present. And 
actually I DO believe that the LXX reading plays a role in 8:58. I don't 
think anyone has suggested it, but I might as well toss in that the 
imperfect of the Hebrew EHYEH has an entirely different sense from the 
imperfect of the Greek HN or HMHN.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
(314) 935-4018
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu  OR cwc@oui.com

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