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by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 31st, 2026, 7:24 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: The pronoun σου in the letters to the Seven Churches.
Replies: 4
Views: 19800

Re: The pronoun σου in the letters to the Seven Churches.

We are talking from totally different viewpoints. I don't understand what you are trying to say and you don't (maybe) understand what I'm trying to say. Linguistics isn't easy to explain to those how aren't already familiar with it, and I'm really not a linguist, and what I have known is quite rusty...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 13th, 2026, 7:08 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Ephesians 4.1
Replies: 2
Views: 9946

Re: Ephesians 4.1

I thought for a couple of days what to answer and Jonathan's answer prompted me to finally do it. I don't outright agree with Jonathan, but don't totally disagree either. What you say, "this phrase seemed particularly unusual as it interrupts the flow of the syntax", isn't correct. It's no...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
December 14th, 2025, 5:28 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: The pronoun σου in the letters to the Seven Churches.
Replies: 4
Views: 19800

Re: The pronoun σου in the letters to the Seven Churches.

does Jesus intend to make a distinction between what is happening in Ephesus which is not what Paul taught? Or is there an implication of Spirit led work? That is, churches are doing things on their own without the guidance of the Spirit? Another thought I had was the meaning of ἔργα should be diff...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
September 6th, 2025, 9:42 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?
Replies: 7
Views: 129177

Re: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?

You are absolutely right about the distinction between learning vocabulary and learning grammar in Greek. I was wondering: in your experience, at what stage of learning should learners focus more on grammar (morphology) than vocabulary? And is there a method to make lemma recognition more natural? ...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
September 5th, 2025, 3:17 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Struggling with John 3:8 phrase
Replies: 3
Views: 201530

Re: Struggling with John 3:8 phrase

I believe it's the word order which is confusing here. In English it's not natural to say "The wind wherever wants blows". Maybe you could stretch English and say "The wind -- wherever it wants to, it blows". But in Koine Greek we can say S τὸ πνεῦμα + ὅπου θέλει V πνεῖ. Semantic...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 26th, 2025, 1:47 pm
Forum: Unicode and Fonts
Topic: Cardo rhos fixed
Replies: 4
Views: 821608

Re: Cardo rhos fixed

I haven't been active here for a while, so I just saw the latest post. Sorry, I didn't find the file anymore. I have also totally forgotten how I fixed it. If you want to try, you can download the google font (or the same font from some other source) and open the .ttf file with FontForge. The applic...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 25th, 2025, 1:50 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: G2863 - κομάω in the context of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
Replies: 1
Views: 105617

Re: G2863 - κομάω in the context of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Answers to numbered questions. 1. Yes, but if you are even semi-serious with Greek, you should at least learn to find it yourself in some online of offline Bible reading application, for PC or mobile phone. There are many of them, free, with Greek parsing. 2. It's not correct. It doesn't "stres...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 25th, 2025, 12:15 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: How much is Many? Numerics of polys πολύς...
Replies: 3
Views: 197430

Re: How much is Many? Numerics of polys πολύς...

In human languages in general negatives are sometimes notoriously difficult to understand. What exactly is negated, and what is the result? In this case, too, knowing what the word πολύς means in itself doesn't help much; it just means "many", "much" etc. It's not a number any mo...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 11th, 2025, 3:25 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?
Replies: 7
Views: 129177

Re: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?

At best, it misleads. At worst, perhaps, it could actually be considered fraudulent. If you suspected you might be kicked out, why did you use that one word which has very strong and even aggressive meaning? Did you really consider as real possibility that all Ancient Greek teachers are liars? Othe...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
April 18th, 2025, 8:54 am
Forum: Other
Topic: σουδάριον in John 20.7
Replies: 9
Views: 168503

Re: σουδάριον in John 20.7

If I have understood the words correctly, then 1. It's χωρὶς which creates the translation "separate" (contra Jean above). 2. The difference may come from how χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον is interpreted. It could be possible to take it as tightly connected, χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον = folded to be sepa...

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