On The Rendering Into English Of The Greek Aorist And Perfect

Excerpt from On the Rendering Into English of the Greek Aorist and Perfect: With New Appendices on the New Testament Use of Gap and of OynThis is much as if any one knowing that the Iberian Peninsula is of about the same extent as France, and that they are both tolerably compact in shape, should conclude that if maps of these countries drawn to the same scale be compared by superposition (as we prove the equality of certain pairs of triangles or segments of circles in some of the familiar propositions of Euclid), they will at least very nearly coincide. Let him try the experiment, and he will find that here France will largely overlap, there the Peninsula, and if the maps are correctly drawn, by no ingenuity can one be made to fit with any approach to exactness upon the other. Correctly drawn: dropping the figure I affirm that the English Past, used according to the true English will largely fail to coincide with the Aorist of the Greek verb; and so of the two Perfects.Moreover I do not propose to subject these tenses to complete and exhaustive treatment, and to go once more over all the ground that the labours of so many able and eminent grammarians have covered.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Praise for A Grammar of New Testament Greek: "The most comprehensive account of the language of the New Testament ever produced by British scholars." --The Expository Times>

The following pages deal with the various functions of the various verb-forms of the Greek of the New Testament, so far as respects their mood and tense. It is important that the nature of the relation between form and function be clearly held in mind. It is by no means the case that each form has but one function, and that each function can be discharged by but one form. Forms of various origin may be associated together under one name and perform the same function, or group of functions. --from the IntroductionContents Introductory The Tenses The Moods The Use of Negatives with Verbs