G21

• {"n":"John 8:56","s":"Rejoiced to see my day. The verb is closer to exulted, and the seeing is aorist.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-8-56","r":"John 8:56","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read rejoiced to see, or was glad that he would see."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He was thrilled to see it.** **He was thrilled that he would see it.** English marks that with extra words. Greek marks it with the form of the verb."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Agalliaomai is to exult, a stronger verb than ordinary joy. The construction, hina with the aorist subjunctive ide, can mean rejoiced in order to see or rejoiced that he would see, and the following clause, he saw it and was glad, uses a plain aorist."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English has to supply a time relation between the rejoicing and the seeing that the Greek leaves for the reader."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When two verbs sit next to each other and the versions differ about their order in time, look at the form of the second one."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Rejoiced to see is the majority rendering; that he would see appears in some modern versions."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b9\u03ac\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 agalliaomai \u00b7 G21"}],"src":["agalliaomai at Luke 1:47; 1 Peter 1:6, 8","The hina-plus-aorist-subjunctive construction","Genesis 17:17 and 21:6 as background"]}