Re: Help with Septuagint and Vulgate to Isaiah 42:5
- From: gilgames <GlgAs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:23:33 GMT
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How can it be "present imperfect"? There is no such tense in Latin. There is
'present' and there is 'imperfect'. The two are distinct.
In my latin grammar there was
past - present - future (related to speaker)
perfect - imperfect - progressive (related to the event/action)
active - passive - middle (related to the agent)
indicative - conjuctive - imperative (related to the possibility)
The English grammars for some reason (probabily because the Latin
doesn't have progressive) do not mention by name the imperfect aspect,
but that is in the English language:
I have do it, I do it, I am doing it.
Naturaly not all the 81 tenses exist in all the languages, as
grammatical formulas, but most languages could express all of them quite
exactly if necessary w/o formulas.
As for the topic the message is that Gen 1.1 talks about the world wich
is in time and was created, Isa 42:5 talks about God who is timless and
who is behind every event/action restricting the importance of any
immanent power.
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