Blass Debrunner, and Funk (The Epistolary Aorist)

 

Moises Silva professes that Philippians 2:25 is an instance of the epistolary aorist and rightly categorized this way by most commentators. He adds this valuable observation:

"the action is viewed as past, according to the perspective of the recipients when they read the letter (cf. Col. 4:8; Philem. 12; BDF §334 has some inaccuracies; cf. the fuller discussion in Robertson 1934: 845). If so, Epaphroditus should be viewed as the bear- er of the letter. NASB and NIV attempt to convey the force of δέ with the phrase “who is also.”

So BDF is not fully accurate in section 334: Silva advises his readers to confer the fuller treatment in Robertson. Blass, Debrunner, and Funk is a fine work but inaccuracies can plague just about any book.