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by Barry Hofstetter
August 27th, 2021, 12:44 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Philippians 4:3 question
Replies: 2
Views: 3125

Re: Philippians 4:3 question

Hi. I am not familiar with Greek grammar, so I can’t figure this out for myself. Philippians 4:3 ναὶ ἐρωτῶ καὶ σέ, γνήσιε σύνζυγε, συνλαμβάνου αὐταῖς, αἵτινες ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ συνήθλησάν μοι μετὰ καὶ Κλήμεντος καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν συνεργῶν μου, ὧν τὰ ὀνόματα ἐν βίβλῳ ζωῆς. “3 And I intreat thee also, true...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 23rd, 2021, 11:12 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Matthew 1:20
Replies: 7
Views: 4341

Re: Matthew 1:20

Thanks for the replies. Mr. Hofstetter: I wrote a note to the administrators for the name change. I am not the person who wrote the question on another forum. I am just a Trinitarian who was caught off guard by the grammar and wanted to understand it. No worries. I was mentioning that "just in...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 21st, 2021, 6:34 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Matthew 1:20
Replies: 7
Views: 4341

Re: Matthew 1:20

First of all, for regular posting, we need a real name according to B-Greek policy. I or any other moderator can easily make that change for you, just let us know the name. ταῦτα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐνθυμηθέντος ἰδοὺ ἄγγελος κυρίου κατʼ ὄναρ ἐφάνη αὐτῷ λέγων, Ἰωσὴφ υἱὸς Δαυίδ, μὴ φοβηθῇς παραλαβεῖν Μαρίαν τὴν ...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 20th, 2021, 8:10 pm
Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
Topic: NUMBERS / ΑΡΙΘΜΟΙ 31
Replies: 4
Views: 5186

Re: NUMBERS / ΑΡΙΘΜΟΙ 31

The exaltation about your answer made me drop the ball. So: Does the verb "ζωγρήσατε" imply the "vobis" or "for yourselves" respectively. Or is the Hebrew clearer? ζωγρήσατε is second person plural imperative. "Take them alive." If it's "for yourselves&q...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 18th, 2021, 11:46 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Dorotheus of Gaza
Replies: 8
Views: 3116

Re: Dorotheus of Gaza

Alpheios is really helpful for this kind of thing - you can quickly get inflections and definitions for text on any web page. Including this one. Screen Shot 2021-08-18 at 15.42.50.png The initial gloss may not fit, but you can get to LSJ with one click: Screen Shot 2021-08-18 at 15.46.56.png Or yo...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 18th, 2021, 1:20 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Dorotheus of Gaza
Replies: 8
Views: 3116

Re: Dorotheus of Gaza

To stretch my Biblical Greek I try reading texts other than the NT. Here is the opening paragraph of Dorotheus of Gaza's Asceticas . Ἐν ἀρχῇ ὅτε ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἔθετο αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ, καθὼς λέγει ἡ ἁγία Γραφή, κοσμήσας ἁπάσῃ ἀρετῇ, δοὺς αὐτῷ ἐντολὴν τοῦ μὴ φαγεῖν ἐκ τοῦ ξύλου το...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 15th, 2021, 10:41 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: perfect participle in Acts 13:48
Replies: 18
Views: 8436

Re: perfect participle in Acts 13:48

I really haven't studied the periphrastic constructions with the participle nearly enough, but isn't this essentially a pluperfect in periphrastic form ? And thus aren't you really constrained to see this as being antecedent to belief, because you have a speaker describing events, when the belief h...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 11th, 2021, 6:49 am
Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
Topic: NUMBERS / ΑΡΙΘΜΟΙ 31
Replies: 4
Views: 5186

Re: NUMBERS / ΑΡΙΘΜΟΙ 31

18 καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν ἀπαρτίαν τῶν γυναικῶν, ἥτις οὐκ οἶδε κοίτην ἄρσενος, ζωγρήσατε αὐτάς. The Vulgate makes it "...reservate vobis" KJV et cetera follow this. Is that self-evident? "αὐτάς" is accusative, and "ζωγρήσατε" is "capture/tear away alive". Is the under...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 10th, 2021, 8:28 am
Forum: Books
Topic: BeDuhn Review
Replies: 2
Views: 2465

Re: BeDuhn Review

Thanks for this long review. I have not read BeDuhn's book myself so I don't wish to comment on it on the specifics. I have met him a couple of times, and he strikes me as the type more willing to consider the exegetical possibilites opened up by second- and later alternative Christianities. This i...
by Barry Hofstetter
August 9th, 2021, 1:41 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: John 8:58
Replies: 209
Views: 37513

Re: John 8:58

Barry Hofstetter wrote: August 9th, 2021, 1:39 pm
Well, I had a chance. It's posted in the "Books" forum.
And for clarity, it's not an article on this issue, though it touches on it, but a review of BeDhun's "unfortunate book."

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