Bad Greek

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Tue May 18 15:41:26 EDT 1999


> Now, I am no scholar in the Greek language, but was not the apostle John
> one of the ones whom the religious learders of his time called "uneducated
> and ordinary men"? (Acts 4:13, NRSV)  Would that not have an effect on the
> lack of good grammer?  Perhaps the effect of writing all of this down as
he
> saw it, he did not think to consentrate on good grammer, but getting it
> written down?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Mitchell Gray

The author of the Gospel is not plagued with the horrid style of the author
of the Revelation.  This stylistic difference, among others, leads most NT
scholars to believe that the author of the Gospel and the epistles was a
different person from the author of the Revelation.

Best,

Jim






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