From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 19:09:31 EST
At 3:13 PM -0600 11/22/01, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:
>On Thursday, November 22, 2001, at 02:52 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
>> The text we're working from is Gal 2:1 EPEITA DIA DEKATESSARWN ETWN
>> PALIN
>> ANEBHN EIS IEROSOLUMA META BARNABA. The preceding verse that matters in
>> this regard is
>> 1:21 EPEITA HLQON EIS TA KLIMATA THS SURIAS KAI THS KILIKIAS. If Paul
>> had
>> wanted to emphasize the duration of his stay there, I think he would
>> probably have used an accusative of extent of time, perhaps something
>> like
>> EKEI DE EMENON/EMEINA DEKATESSARA ETH -- the imperfect if the emphasis
>> is
>> on continuous residence, the aorist if the fact that the residence
>> lasted
>> for fourteen years is emphasized.
>
>Carl:
>
>I don't think Keith had in mind a duration, rather repeated visits
>throughout a fourteen year period. At least that is what I was
>responding to in my post.
But I think that repeated visits would have required an imperfect tense
rather than an aorist, something like ANEBAINON rather than ANEBHN.
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