[B-Greek] Forwarded for Matthew Creeden
bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Sat Dec 6 14:38:10 EST 2003
"Carl W. Conrad" wrote
> I want to add a brief note of my own to express my gratitude to Trevor for
> forwarding Matthew's response and to the list-members who responded to
> Matthew's desperate cry. We B-Greekers tend, I think, to disagree with each
> other more than we agree on the matters that make up most of our list
> correspondence; we differ widely from each other too when it comes to
> exactly what we believe. Nevertheless as list-members we are, I think,
> wholeheartedly in consensus about the profound value of coming to know the
> Greek biblical text in its earliest extant form and language. We all know
> that, to use a secular Greek expression, CALEPA TA KALA, "beautiful things
> are hard." We know that competence in Biblical Greek is anything but easy
> to achieve and that achieving even minimal competence in it requires a
> considerable commitment and investment of time and effort, much of which at
> many times seems disappointing in proportion to what we have gained by it.
> Ultimately it's a matter of personal experience with the difficulties of
> learning Greek that counts most when we are confronted by the desperate
> plea of our young friend in the present case. Given the good-will and
> caring commitment of our list-members, I'm just so very happy that the list
> can be a conduit for such good people at work as this present experience
> has indicated.
This thread, more than any other, makes me want to meet my fellow "B-Greekers" in person. Alas, this is not likely to happen.
Thanks for the "electronic fellowship".
Bert de Haan.
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