Luke 17:26-30
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage ( ησθιον, επινον, εγαμουν, εγαμιζοντο ). Imperfects all of them vividly picturing the life of the time of Noah. But the other tenses are aorists (Noah entered εισηλθεν, the flood came ηλθεν, destroyed απωλεσεν ).Note the same sharp contrast between the imperfects here ( ate ησθιον,
drank επινον,
bought ηγοραζον,
sold επωλουν,
planted εφυτευον,
builded ωικοδομουν ) and the aorists in verse 29 ( went out εξηλθεν,
rained εβρεξεν,
destroyed απωλεσεν ).
Is revealed ( αποκαλυπτετα ). Prophetic and futuristic present passive indicative.
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