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From: Don Wilkins 
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Gentlemen,
I am very new to the tc list and have picked up some ongoing 
threads only recently. Having said that, I wonder if you have 
already discussed the fact that the future indicative is not 
unattested in classical literature in clauses of fearing and caution? 
Notably, in book 4.1.18 of Xenophon's _Cyropaedia_ one finds the 
future indicative used after MH in a caution clause cited in a speech 
given by Cyaxares: hORA MH POLLWN hEKASTWi hHMWN XEIRWN 
DEHSEI KAI OFQALMWN (...see to it that that each of us does not 
have need of many hands and eyes.). There may be other examples, 
and I suspect what we have is a clause of fearing using the future 
indicative in the sense of warning as was typical of "future 
emotional" conditions in classical Greek. Perhaps this is why Heb 
3.12 apparently passed muster with the scribes. It does not 
necessarily cry out for a subjunctive. Again, I apologize if I am 
covering old ground.

Don Wilkins
UC Riverside

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