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On the Present Participle in the Greek.
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moved , it is not surely sufficient to overturn a well-established rule But a little reflection will show , that it does not , in reality , contradict my position .
The blind man appears to speak the language of a very natural enthusiasm . The blind man sees ! He scarcely felt himself as not still blind . The disease and the cure were so intimately blended
together , in his imagination , that he uses of both states , though necessarily not synchronous , a form of expression which usually denotes two simultaneous states ,
because they were naturally undistinguished in his enraptured mind . And the historian faithfully gives the expressi ve words of the speaker , so naturally uttered , though they may be somewhat incongruous , and not unlike an Irishism .
Without wishing to revive the controversy respecting the preexistence of Christ , which you closed with the last year , I must beg leave to observe , that my
axiom settles effectually , if it be well founded , the meaning of 2 Cor . viii . 9 . iC Who * being rich , became poor , " htfTcwxevve ttAou-$ iog u ; v , and completely demolishes the inference of Christ ' s pre-existence drawn from it . However we may understand the riches and poverty of Christ , and I am not quite satisfied with the interpretations which I have seen , the two states must be simultaneous , if this rule is founded . *
* All that has been said respecting tvuo o&fotiu states , is founded on nothing in the N . T . Such states are no where to be round , although one would imagine that the thing was of constant recurrence when it is made the ground of a canon of interpretation . The case of the blind man has been disposed of . And the only otner instance that occurs , containing the conditions required , of opposite states , the participle m * i is diametrically contrary to the inference drawn . It is John x 33 . tfvGpwwo * vv , votus cnavrov Oeov . Here are opposite states , and the participle « v , but the time of the participle present and that of the verb is simultaneous .
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I have limited my rule by requiring that the participle should be without the article , although I do riot think that it was absolutely necessary to express such limitation . However , there is
some room to suspect , that when the article is used ^ the participle present may refer to a different time from that denoted by the verb . And the reason seems to be this . It is then equivalent to the relative and the verb from
which it is derived , which may be in the present or imperfect tense , indifferently , as the case may require . But even in this form , a difference of time is very rare , if it ever occurs .
Before I conclude I will observe , that our knowledge of the tenses of verbs , in all languages , not excepting our own , seems as yet very imperfect . Our best
writers are continually committing errors . And , perhaps , the sam , e may be said of Latin authorsr not excepting Cicero himself . If an anonymous writer might presume to set down the name of a
real scholar , as well as a good man , I would intreat the Rev . Joseph Bretland to favour the world with some grammatical work on this subject , than whonfi few are more able to instruct his
age , or to raise to himself a lasting monument of literary reputation I . am , Sir , &c . PRIMITIVUS .
On The Present Participle In The Greek.
On the Present Participle in the Greek .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/32/
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