Hi, Charlie:
        You sent,
|Date: 04-10-98 (19:26)              Number: 41818 of 41818 (Refer# NONE)
|  To: RANDG WOOD
|From: CHARLIE RAY
|Subj: Robertson on Aorist
|Read: NO                            Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE (Echo)
|Conf: F-OPEN_BIBLE (810)         Read Type: GENERAL (A) (+)
        Bless your heart!  I've read all your posts with avid
interest, and, especially with this one, increased understanding.
I've put them all together in a file called "AORIST.RAY", for
our permanent Bible study topical records.
        We really appreciate your doing all this research, and
sharing all this info with us.
        For me, the parts of your discussion I had understood
as individual data, came together into a coherent theory when I
read,
|Burton puts it clearly thus:  "The Greek employs the aorist, leaving the
|context to suggest the order; the English usually suggests the order by
|the use of the pluperfect."  The Greek aorist takes no note of any
|interval between itself and the moment of speaking while the English past
|takes note of the interval.
        I'm reading the Textus Receptus just now; and though I
don't really understand more than about 40% of it, (apart from
back-translating from English!), and don't always know an aorist
when I see one, I'll keep my eyes open for this principle!
        Appreciate your blessing,
|Hope this helps.
        Indeed!
 IXTHUS<<
        I'll be focused on ministering for a few days, but will
get back to you in the new week.  I think there are a couple of
places I wanted to comment on, and a couple of questions I
wanted to ask, especially whether there are one or two
reference books I could buy, that would give me access to this
kind of detail whenever I need it.
        Thanks!
    ||        Many blessings this Easter!   --Ralph
    ||        Ralph & Gene Ann Wood
    ||        randg.wood@encode.com
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