Sentences in Greek

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 7 11:16:05 EDT 2002


Richard:

Just a few comments.

No one "thinks KOINE Greek" today. If that is
your objective or hope, you are sure to fall short.
Linguistically, that can not happen.

I would be far more content in understanding the small
pieces than trying to reconstruct some overall grand design,
a design that even the original writer never saw!

Too much time is spent, if you ask me, in trying to connect
dots and fill in gaps. There is too much rich truth in the
pieces to spend time reconstructing something on too large
a scale.

Worst case scenario, you will keep it very simple...something
the first century hearers would surely have appreciated.

There seems to be a tendency to see the writers of scripture
having this intricate, complex hidden agenda, and if we could
somehow discover it, we could at last figure out just what he
REALLY is saying.

As for me, I recommend you not complicate the process of
understanding the scripture; it really is not that esoteric.
Jesus himself faulted the leaders for not understanding the
scripture... not because they were unable to figure out what
was behind the text, but because they couldn't understand
what was right before their eyes.

My thoughts,

Mark Wilson

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