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by timothy_p_mcmahon
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?
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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.
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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...
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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.
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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.
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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

David Lim wrote:"αριθμος ανθρωπου" is without the article, so "ο αριθμος αυτου" must be the subject of "εστιν".
Why does the absence of the article render αριθμος in the phrase αριθμος ανθρωπου ineligible to be the subject of εστιν?
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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...
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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...
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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.
by timothy_p_mcmahon
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...

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