From: Cal Redmond (calred@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon May 20 1996 - 01:20:03 EDT
michael zarb wrote:
>
> I am new to this list. Have the tenses in Mt 16:19 and 18:18 been discussed
> on this forum?
> Are the periphrastic future perfects to be taken seriously?
> What are the grammatical arguments supporting the usual translation, "will
> be bound" and "will be loosed", instead of the more natural, i.e.equivalent
> to classical rendering, "will have been bound" and "will have been loosed"?
> I wonder whether the grammarians revising Blass-Debrunner-Funk are going to
> include this matter.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Michael Zarb
> Cobble Hill, BC, Canada
> e-mail: mzarb@islandnet.com
In my earlier comments, I called the verbs "perfect passives." Of
course you all know that I meant future perfects. ;-) This is a
strange verbal transformation that occurs too late at night when one
should be sleeping.
Cal Redmond
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