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[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

>Syriac QATAL is normally
used with past reference, but in Matthew 24:33
the QATAL form of the verb XZ) (to see) is used
with future reference. >

This sentence also illustrates the need to evaluate how an analyst
divides and assigns data.
The verb Hazaytun 'you saw' is in a subordinate clause mo d- 'what that'
to main clause with an imperative "Know".
The main command to 'know' indirectly relates to the future,
but it is specifically in the volitional world,
"i want you to know" the non-indicative world.
The subordinate 'seeing' can also be viewed as relatively past to the
'knowing'. "When you would see, then you should know.."

So one should not take this Syriac qatal as an unambiguous, simple
'future context'.

braxot
Yochanan


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