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Old 12-11-2007, 07:16 PM   #2
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I think they are trying to make a lot with too little information-- but that's the way things go with New Testament studies, it seems.

The sentence is a present general conditional statement. The verb is subjunctive because it is the protesis of the conditional clause, and the aorist suggests the simple nature of the action. If I were translating, it would read "If she should leave, let her remain unmarried."
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