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On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Don Wilkins wrote:

> 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. 

Don, thank you for this contribution.  While I am not convinced that this 
construction would occur only with verbs of fearing and testing, it at 
least does provide an example from classical literature of what I would 
be terming the "literary" style mentioned by Bl.-D. as opposed to what 
normally obtained in the Koine of the NT era and in "normal" classical 
usage.   

However, I would also be interested to know whether scribes of Xenophon 
thought this future indicative in any way problematic, i.e., are there 
variant readings in the MSS of Xenophon which change the construction to 
a "normal" subjunctive, or is this untouched, as is the case in Heb.3.12 ?


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Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.           Assoc. Prof./Greek and New Testament
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary     Wake Forest, North Carolina
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