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From: Don Wilkins 
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Maurice Robinson wrote:
> 
> 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 ?
> 
This is a good question, Maurice. I'll try to research it and get back 
to you; unfortunately, the TLG (my primary source) does not 
include textual apparati yet. BTW, I didn't mean to imply that the 
future indicative as an exception to the subjunctive only occurs in 
fear or caution contexts; I just didn't research it further than that, 
and don't know otherwise at this point.

Don Wilkins
UC Riverside

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