From: CWestf5155@aol.com
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 11:04:03 EST
Dear Randall,
In a message dated 12/18/2000 4:26:31 PM Mountain Standard Time,
ButhFam@compuserve.com writes:
> Message text written by INTERNET:CWestf5155@aol.com
> >Porter's view ...
> He would say that the use of the aorist is
> making the most general statement possible without elaboration--God loved
> the
> world--without any information coded in the verb about when it started or
> stopped, or whether it was punctilliar or repeated, or whether it could be
> counted or not.<
>
> I believe you've just described,
> -don't you love it?-
> a simple past tense, "God loved the world".
>
Yes exactly....
Ummmmmm...except when the context indicates it is present,
gnomic/omnitemporal/timeless (as it is in Jn. 3:16) or future!
Cindy Westfall
PhD Student University of Surrey at Roehampton
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