5793 語氣 - 期望�期許

    期望�期許語氣通常被用在”第四類”的條件子句（譯註：就是與ei一同出現的子句），
　　表達這個行動完成的可能性很低．在新約時代，在口語或成文的希臘文中，
　　期望�期許語氣已漸消失．新約聖經裡罕見這種語氣．

    在那些罕見的例子中，期望�期許語氣的動詞不是在條件子句裡，
　　表達這件事非常可能完成．最常見到它出現在"mh genoito"這個詞彙中
　　 (AV,"God forbid"; NKJV "Certainly not").

5793 Mood - Optative

    The optative mood is generally used in the so-called
    "fourth-class" conditions which express a wish or desire for
    an action to occur in which the completion of such is
    doubtful.  By the time of the New Testament, the optative mood
    was beginning to disappear from spoken and written Greek, and
    such rarely occurs in the New Testament.

    In a few cases, verbs in the optative mood stand apart from a
    conditional clause to express the strongest possible wish
    regarding an event.  The most common of these appears in the
    phrase "mh genoito" (AV,"God forbid"; NKJV "Certainly not").