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by Leonard Jayawardena
June 4th, 2021, 8:01 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Don't Do Word Studies
Replies: 10
Views: 19720

Re: Don't Do Word Studies

I listened to the video linked to in its entirety and find the title of this thread to be a misrepresention of what the speaker on the video said. What he actually said is So I'm not saying, "Don't do word studies." What I am trying to say is "Be very careful when doing word studies a...
by Leonard Jayawardena
June 4th, 2021, 1:43 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: 2 Cor 4:4 the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ or the light of the glorious gospel of Christ?
Replies: 7
Views: 4637

Re: 2 Cor 4:4 the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ or the light of the glorious gospel of Christ?

2 Corinthians 4:4: ἐν οἷς ὁ θεὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου ἐτύφλωσεν τὰ νοήματα τῶν ἀπίστων εἰς τὸ μὴ αὐγάσαι τὸν φωτισμὸν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου τῆς δόξης τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὅς ἐστιν εἰκὼν τοῦ θεοῦ. While the grammar may permit τοῦ εὐαγγελίου τῆς δόξης τοῦ Χριστοῦ to be rendered as either "the glorious gospel of Ch...
by Leonard Jayawardena
June 3rd, 2021, 7:49 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Error in William D. Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek?
Replies: 2
Views: 7018

Error in William D. Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek?

Recently, I started going through Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek and came across what appears to be an error in section 2.7, page 4. According to the chart given in section 2.1, when both epsilon and eta are followed by alpha, the result is eta, but in section 2.7 it is shown as alpha. Isn't ...
by Leonard Jayawardena
April 20th, 2021, 11:44 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: 1 John 5:7-8
Replies: 13
Views: 5463

Re: 1 John 5:7-8

Alex Hopkins wrote: Applying the same care, then, it should be noted that what Leonard has written about Wallace is, in fact, in error. Wallace does not say that the masculine participle is due to "the personification of the three witnesses (spirit, water and blood)." Rather, he writes tha...
by Leonard Jayawardena
April 20th, 2021, 2:00 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: 1 John 5:7-8
Replies: 13
Views: 5463

Re: 1 John 5:7-8

Barry Hofstetter wrote: Substantives in apposition do not have to agree with each other in number and gender. Masculines can be in apposition to feminines or neuters, but each substantive retains its own gender. That's what you are looking at in 1 John 5:7. What you say would be true in a sentence l...
by Leonard Jayawardena
April 19th, 2021, 12:43 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: 1 John 5:7-8
Replies: 13
Views: 5463

Re: 1 John 5:7-8

Alex Hopkins wrote: That said, I reiterate that I agree with Barry that 1 John 5:7-8 is simply an instance of τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸ αἷμα standing in apposition to οἱ μαρτυροῦντες. In an earlier post I have already agreed with Barry Hofstetter that πνεῦμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸ αἷμα stands in appo...
by Leonard Jayawardena
April 17th, 2021, 3:41 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: 1 John 5:7-8
Replies: 13
Views: 5463

Re: 1 John 5:7-8

(Note to Administrator/Moderator: This is the revised post.) Substantives in apposition do not agree in number and gender, but each substantive retains its own qualities. That is true but it is beside the point. Let me explain again. I wrote in my last post: In Revelation 17:16 we have two neuter no...
by Leonard Jayawardena
April 17th, 2021, 1:31 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: 1 John 5:7-8
Replies: 13
Views: 5463

Re: 1 John 5:7-8

Substantives in apposition do not agree in number and gender, but each substantive retains its own qualities. That is true but it is beside the point. Let me explain again. I wrote in my last post In Revelation 17:16 we have two neuter nouns referred to by a masculine pronoun: καὶ τὰ δέκα κέρατα ἃ ...
by Leonard Jayawardena
April 16th, 2021, 4:51 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: 1 John 5:7-8
Replies: 13
Views: 5463

Re: 1 John 5:7-8

I would simply say that the nouns are in apposition to οἱ μαρταροῦντες, which functions as the overall subject, "the witnesses" and so "concord" doesn't really apply. The three nouns are certainly in apposition to οἱ μαρταροῦντες, but what do you mean "'concord' doesn't rea...
by Leonard Jayawardena
April 14th, 2021, 11:13 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: 1 John 5:7-8
Replies: 13
Views: 5463

1 John 5:7-8

1 John 5:7-8 reads: 7 ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες, 8 τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸ αἷμα, καὶ οἱ τρεῖς εἰς τὸ ἕν εἰσιν. Expositor's Greek Testament has the following comment on τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες in v. 7: τρεῖς οἱ μαρτυροῦντες, masculine though Πνεῦμα, ὕδωρ, and αἷμα are all neuter, becau...

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