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- September 13th, 2012, 11:24 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: verbless conditional Gal. 3:18 what mood?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4987
Re: verbless conditional Gal. 3:18 what mood?
Aren't most CTFs indicative?
- September 13th, 2012, 12:49 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: ANASTASIS in Acts 17:18
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17008
Re: ANASTASIS in Acts 17:18
A lot of Greek minor deities are personifications of abstract nouns (Dike, Cratus). It seems reasonable that Paul's interpreters might have taken τον ιησουν και την αναστασιν as two deities.
- July 26th, 2012, 11:48 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Ephesians 1:22…the feet as head over all things
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2310
Re: Ephesians 1:22…the feet as head over all things
What could it possibly mean that God gave Jesus to the assembly? The answer to that question strays more into theology than is appropriate for this board, but it seems that God giving Christ to the church is a readily comprehensible idea. It's also possible that Paul's thought is betraying its Hebr...
- July 24th, 2012, 12:04 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Ephesians 1:22…the feet as head over all things
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2310
Re: Ephesians 1:22…the feet as head over all things
αὐτὸν is masculine. ἐκκλησίᾳ is feminine. Same issue.
- July 23rd, 2012, 8:11 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Ephesians 1:22…the feet as head over all things
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2310
Re: Ephesians 1:22…the feet as head over all things
αὐτὸν is singular. πόδας is plural. Your idea fails a simple test of grammatical concord.
- July 11th, 2012, 12:32 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Rev 13.18 antecedent question
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2583
Re: Rev 13.18 antecedent question
Why does the absence of the article render αριθμος in the phrase αριθμος ανθρωπου ineligible to be the subject of εστιν?David Lim wrote:"αριθμος ανθρωπου" is without the article, so "ο αριθμος αυτου" must be the subject of "εστιν".
- July 9th, 2012, 7:12 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: I need help with Philippians 2:6-8
- Replies: 73
- Views: 24492
Re: I need help with Philippians 2:6-8
I think the rendering of δοῦλος in English touches upon cross-cultural issues in translation. For Americans, at least, the word 'slave' conjures up the imagery of the racially-based chattel slavery that mars our history, an image that would not have inhered in the minds of NT authors and readers. Wh...
- July 4th, 2012, 8:53 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Possible parentheses (1 John 1:1)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10927
Re: Possible parentheses (1 John 1:1)
John, Your approach doesn't make sense to me. It seems straightforward to me that John is recounting his previous experiences - visual, auditory and tactile - with Jesus (the word of life). When he gets to the phrase "word of life" that prompts him to go off on a tangent about that word of...
- July 4th, 2012, 1:52 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Possible parentheses (1 John 1:1)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10927
Re: Possible parentheses
Verse 2 is parenthetical. I don't know how περι του λογου της ζωης could be included in that parenthesis or form another parenthesis of its own.
- July 2nd, 2012, 11:10 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: I need help with Philippians 2:6-8
- Replies: 73
- Views: 24492
Re: I need help with Philippians 2:6-8
The standard NT Greek dictionary is Bauer . It's quite expensive but indispensable if you want to pursue a serious study of the Greek NT. For Hebrew I'd recommend Koehler & Baumgartner . Equally pricey, unfortunately. My own intuitive take on your verse is that the anarthrous occurrences of θεός...