[b-hebrew] "I Am" vs. "I Will Be"
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 29 17:35:17 EDT 2006
For my part, I have argued here before that "I will be" does not answer Moses' question. Namely "what is your name?"
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Kelton Graham
KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net
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From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard at ont.com>
> Awohili at aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> >It's quite simple. I'm not fishing. I asked a question, which has been
> >ignored. I'd like a cogent answer to my question, which no one has answered
> yet.
> >
> >
>
> HH: The answer is that the context is different in the two verses,
> calling for a different handling of the verb in English. If a verb is
> imperfective in aspect, then it can be present or future. The original
> hearer would have adjusted according to the context. The future simply
> does not suit 3:14b well, as has already been explained. To name
> yourself "I will be" without a predicate leaves the hearer with a God
> who exists in the future but perhaps not in the present. But the future
> does suit 3:12 well. You could translate 3:12 as "I am with you," but
> the futuristic context makes that less appropriate in English. The fact
> is that God was with Moses at that moment and would be with him at every
> step from that time onwards. It was partially for this reason that God
> sought to put him to death when he attempted to return to Egypt without
> having circumcised his son (Ex 4:24-25). God as with him, and he was
> not free any longer to ignore the demands of God's covenant with
> Abraham. So in a technical sense "I am with you" would be correct.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
>
>
> >
> >Solomon Landers
> >
> >In a message dated 06/29/2006 1:29:23 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> >dwashbur at nyx.net writes:
> >
> >See the discussion for the various people's reasonings. I'm not sure what
> >it is that you
> >want. Again, if you don't find their arguments convincing, that's your
> >right as a free human
> >being. But you seem to be fishing for something, and it's difficult to
> >determine what.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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