From: John M. Sweigart (jsweiger@CSWNET.COM)
Date: Wed Dec 03 1997 - 11:20:33 EST
Carl William Conrad wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Kevin and Sandi Anderson wrote:
>
> > I have read that Phil 3:15a ought to be translated, "Therefore, as many as
> > _will be_ [instead of _are_] perfect...." I am not so much interested in the
> > interpretive vagaries elicited by this suggestion (although if anybody wants
> > to pursue them I would be happy to sit back and watch the fireworks) as I am
> > interested in knowing whether anyone can recall other instances where a
> > predicate nominative may be reasonably translated in something other than
> > the present tense.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin L. Anderson
>
> I would guess that the only reason anybody suggests assuming a future
> perfect (a rare enough tense in the first place; I think I've only noted
> three or four in over 35 years of reading Greek--and there is no future
> perfect for EIMI--perhaps GENHSOMEQA is assumed?)--to begin again, the
> only reason anybody would suggest a future or future perfect would be
> because they understand TELEIOI to mean "perfect." While there are
> contexts where the word can carry that meaning, it probably has the sense
> "mature" here--"grown-up" as opposed to 'still childish in one's
> thinking." So I think the point of Paul's statement is rather that, if we
> are mature, or those of us who are mature, ought to take this attitude ...
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University
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Carl;
Any chance that TELEOI is related to OT TAMIM meaning blameless, i.e.
God's command to Abraham "Walk before me and be blameless" with its ANE
covenantal and treaty implications?
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