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by Rhoover60
February 24th, 2020, 2:23 pm
Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
Topic: Ranking NT books by difficulty
Replies: 9
Views: 35591

Re: Ranking NT books by difficulty

Yes, I have found the general difficulty of 2Corinthians to be a Real Event. However, I read it again a few months ago and was surprised at how easily Chapter Seven went. Of course, the whole book was not that way, but there are [long?] stretches of 2Cor that just flew by. Such events are an encoura...
by Rhoover60
February 6th, 2017, 11:25 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Acts 2:22-23
Replies: 4
Views: 1522

Re: Acts 2:22-23

Wes Wood wrote: I think the repetition Ἰησοῦν... τοῦτον makes it clear that there is grammatical emphasis, Thanks for your response, Wes. I had noticed the τοῦτον and figured that it referenced back to Ἰησοῦν. What initially struck me was the 'distance' between the direct object and the verb, but th...
by Rhoover60
February 6th, 2017, 9:28 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Acts 2:22-23
Replies: 4
Views: 1522

Acts 2:22-23

22 Ἄνδρες Ἰσραηλῖται, ἀκούσατε τοὺς λόγους τούτους. Ἰησοῦν τὸν Ναζωραῖον, ἄνδρα ⸂ἀποδεδειγμένον ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ⸃ εἰς ὑμᾶς δυνάμεσι καὶ τέρασι καὶ σημείοις οἷς ἐποίησεν διʼ αὐτοῦ ὁ θεὸς ἐν μέσῳ ὑμῶν, ⸀καθὼς αὐτοὶ οἴδατε, 23 τοῦτον τῇ ὡρισμένῃ βουλῇ καὶ προγνώσει τοῦ θεοῦ ⸀ἔκδοτον διὰ ⸀χειρὸς ἀνόμων προσ...
by Rhoover60
December 31st, 2016, 12:57 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: John 7:49
Replies: 5
Views: 1974

Re: John 7:49

J. Robie, thanks. I read the passage from Jannaris and noticed this phrase, "Nevertheless, it is not rigidly adhered to even by A[ttic?] writers. etc." This points out what probably happened in my thinking. I falsely imagined that language had a mathematical precision to it!! Hopefully, I ...
by Rhoover60
December 30th, 2016, 7:47 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: John 7:49
Replies: 5
Views: 1974

Re: John 7:49

My thanks to you, J. Robie. I remember similar guidelines regarding plural neuter subjects and singular verbs [or is it the other way around? I will have to check on that.] Regards.
by Rhoover60
December 29th, 2016, 11:43 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: John 7:49
Replies: 5
Views: 1974

John 7:49

Why would the predicate adjective ἐπάρατοί be plural and the subject ὁ ὄχλος be singular?

ἀλλὰ ὁ ὄχλος οὗτος ὁ μὴ γινώσκων τὸν νόμον ἐπάρατοί εἰσιν.
by Rhoover60
September 8th, 2016, 9:55 am
Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
Topic: ῾Αμαρτωλος in Luke 7:37
Replies: 2
Views: 2641

῾Αμαρτωλος in Luke 7:37

In working on GNT vocabulary, I came across the word κομίζω. I had difficulty learning it and in such cases I will look up the usage of such a word in the GNT in hopes that the meaning will somehow stick. While reading Luke 7:37 [where I see κομίσασα] I noticed that γυνὴ ἥτις was described as an ἁμα...
by Rhoover60
November 29th, 2015, 1:13 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction
Replies: 0
Views: 1136

Introduction

Ron Hoover. Getting ready to retire in a few months and plan on brushing up on my Koine. I received a minor in Greek back in the 70s and have still retained <some> fluency. I plan on going back through my first year grammar [A Beginning Greek Book by John Merle Rife 5th ed. 1964] and doing some non-...

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