At 16:36 25/11/2003, Doug Hoxworth wrote: >or are there other ways to understand this preposition? --- A very good treatment of prepositions, complete with diagrams, can be found in: Porter, Stanley E. Idioms of the Greek New Testament. 2nd. Ed. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994. Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ] mauros at iol.ie