From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 16 1998 - 19:59:08 EDT
At 2:38 PM -0500 4/16/98, dalmatia@eburg.com wrote:
>6: hWS OUN HKOUSEN... MEN EMEINEN... DUO hHMERAS...
> As therefore he hears... then he was remaining... two days...
Here note that EMEINEN is an aorist, not an imperfect, "he remained for 2 days"
>7: KAI META TOUTO
> and after this
>
>11: KAI META TOUTO
> and after this
>
>17: hO IHSOUS... hEUREN AUTON TESSARAS hHMERAS HDH ECONTA
> Jesus... finds him four days already having...
And hEUREN is not a present tense but an an aorist: "found"
>Does this construction, KAI META TOUTO, mean 'and on the next day' in
>this passage? This would make the accounting of days a simple matter
>of 2 + 1 + 1 = the four in 11:17. Or, do more days possibly pass? Or
>only the 2 specifically named? [?!?!] How does the time in this
>passage account?
No, META TOUTO simply means "afterwards"--there's no indication of HOW LONG
afterwards expressed in the text. For that reason, I don't think a strict
accounting for the whole chronology in this sequence is possible.
Carl W. Conrad
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