From: Steven Cox (scox@Mail.Sparkice.COM.CN)
Date: Mon Jul 05 1999 - 01:09:07 EDT
Hello all,
Maybe a bit of an arcane subject but Robertson on Aktionsart p829 argues for
3 distinctions in the aorist:
constative = unmodified point-action
ingressive = emphasis on beginning of action
effective = emphasis on conclusion of action
Then R cites ESKHNWSEN and EGENETO from 1Jo1:14 as examples of effective
and ingressive respectively.
BDF doesn't make these distinctions in discussions of Aktionsart (nor
discuss the passage in this or other contexts).
My questions
1. How valid/useful are the Aktionsart distinctions Robertson is drawing?
2. Robertson has commented "(Incarnation)" in brackets to illustrate his
point, but it there really a substantial difference in Aktionsart between
SARX EGENETO and KAI ESKHNWSEN EN hUMIN?*
What substantially is the difference between SARX EGENETO and e.g. hO hELIOS
EGENETO MELAS - this does not seem to be "ingressive" in any sense,
3. What is the Aktionsart of Gen2:7/1Co15:45 EGENETO hO ANQRWPOS EIS YUXHN
ZWSAN?
4. A red herring probably - When I read (or more often hear) Jerome's
rendering VERBUM CARO FACTUM EST rather than taking FACTUS as a statement of
transformation (that X changed to Y, here non-physical became physical), I
would take the verb (admittedly a perfect not an aorist) as an "effective"
(per Robertson's definition) statement of finished result, or nature - i.e.
this is how the subject was fashioned. Is there any substantial difference
between the Greek and the Vulgate here?
Best regards
Steven
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