Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Matthew,
> GDay all,
> 
> This is for Rolf, Dave, Galia, Alverio, etc
> 
> I read this morning,
> 
> "Why, every one knows that in practice we very often find tenses
> interchanged when time is spoken of; and especially this is the custom in
> Holy Scripture, not only in respect of the past tense, and of the present;
> but even of the future ... It would be a long task to reckon up all the
> expressions of this kind which students have noticed."
> 
> St Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th century
> Oration XXIX. The Third Theological Oration. On the Son. (CE 379-381)

:-)  Thanks, I needed that.  It's good to know that befuddlement is 
an ongoing and centuries-old phenomenon...

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
A Bible that's falling apart means a life that isn't.