Cheryl

Michael,

There is Hebrew and there is English. We are not talking about English but Hebrew. I am relying on the Hebrew experts to inform me of the grammar rules. If it was just a matter of how English sentence structure, then they wouldn’t have to study Hebrew structure. We don’t have the problems of the Hebrew marked and unmarked overlays so I’m sorry but you can’t compare languages. I am just going to stick to the experts who give the rules because I am surely not smart enough to judge their knowledge by my limited knowledge of English. So unless you can find a rule for the limited use for pluperfect that supercedes their rule for the Hebrew language then we must stick with those who actually translate the bible from Hebrew. Notice again that the over whelming majority of Bibles do not translate in the pluperfect.