[B-Greek] interlinears for beginners

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Apr 19 08:40:55 EDT 2005


On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:32:56 EDT TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com writes:
> <<<<<In a message dated 4/19/2005 6:18:09 AM Central  Daylight Time, 
> 
> jwest at highland.net writes:
> 
> Interlinears are the 
> plague- avoid  them.>>>>
>  
> I have found an interlinear useful at this stage of my language 
> learning,  
> especially as I try to master prepositions and pronouns. To be able 
> to read  
> along and basically just read the verbs in English, I can read the 
> rest of the  
> verses in Greek and notice when the preposition is followed by the 
> genitive or  
> accusative, for example.
>  
> I also like to bring my Interlinear to church with me. When the 
> pastor  
> starts whipping out word studies and talk of the Greek I like to 
> have the  Greek 
> handy as well as the English. Later on I can switch to a parallel  
> Greek/English, but for now the interlinear is best.
>  
> I see a time in the future when an interlinear might be a crutch, 
> that  will 
> need to be put away, but not yet.
>  
> I needed a baby bottle when I was a baby. Then one day my mother 
> took it  
> away. It would have been wrong of her to never allow me to have had 
> it. It  would 
> be equally wrong for me to still be using it.
>  
> Kat Doe
> homeschool mom
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I usually don't like it when some pastor starts out with "the Greek says
. . ." since they generally don't really know what the Greek says but
what some commentator addicted to etymologizing says.  My 2¢.

george
gfsomsel
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