From: Steven Cox (scox@chinaonline.com.cn.net)
Date: Sat Jan 17 1998 - 22:07:48 EST
Carl, and anyone else.
I have heard of "already/not yet" as a hermeneutic
concept, but have no (conscious) experience of
applying it at a grammatical level. Are there
distinctions of tense, mood or aspect which would help
to identify an "already/not yet" meaning or is it
entirely contextual?
Is "already/not yet" also present in classical greek?
Regards
Steven
At 06:54 98/01/17 -0600, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>At 1:28 AM -0600 1/17/98, Steven Cox wrote:
>> Hello b-greekers
>>
>> INA KATARGHSHi ..TON DIABOLON (Heb2:14)
>>
>> INA ELEHMWN GENHTAI KAI PISTOS ARCIEREUS (Heb2:17)
>>
<snip>
>NT eschatological assertions are going to be problematic, I think, with
>respect to assertions of fulfilment. One can readily point to a verse like
>John 12:31 NUN KRISIS ESTIN TOU KOSMOU TOUTOU: NUN hO ARCWN TOU KOSMOU
>TOUTOU EKBLHQHSETAI EXW and one can construct an argument (one with which I
>tend to agree) that the time reference implied by the NUN and the future
>perfect EKBLHQHESETAI in John's gospel is the crucifixion and resurrection
>of Jesus envisioned as a single whole event. BUT, I don't think one can
>rely upon that alone; I think one must consider the gospel of John as a
>whole, and it seems to me that if one considers the gospel of John as a
>whole, one finds in it assertions,both (a) that the key eschatological
>event has ALREADY taken place, and (b) that it REMAINS to be consummated
>fully in the FUTURE. And my own sense of the NT literature is that this
>bipolarity of an ALREADY and a NOT-YET is pretty consistent and to be found
>throughout the NT, regardless of whether there's an emphasis on realized or
>upon futuristic eschatology in any particular text.
>
>Carl W. Conrad
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