5793 语气 - 期望�期许

    期望�期许语气通常被用在”第四类”的条件子句（译注：就是与ei一同出现的子句），
　　表达这个行动完成的可能性很低．在新约时代，在口语或成文的希腊文中，
　　期望�期许语气已渐消失．新约圣经里罕见这种语气．

    在那些罕见的例子中，期望�期许语气的动词不是在条件子句里，
　　表达这件事非常可能完成．最常见到它出现在"mh genoito"这个词汇中
　　 (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").