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- March 7th, 2023, 1:42 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
- Replies: 5
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Re: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
Oh, that's given me a bit of a lightbulb moment - thank you! Whilst I'm very much at a sufficiently early stage of learning that attempting to read without translating at all would just have me hitting a brick wall, it hadn't occurred to me that leaving it as rather wooden not rule following but sti...
- March 7th, 2023, 8:14 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2777
Re: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
Thanks for those links. I can definitely see them being helpful in the future, but unless I'm being dense (which is very possible), I don't think they help my current confusion. I'm less interested in the question of which of "εκιονος" and "το φως" is subject and complement, and ...
- March 6th, 2023, 10:13 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Poking the hive.... a question about using an interlinear
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3103
Re: Poking the hive.... a question about using an interlinear
Thanks for the reassurance Jason, and for another useful tool Stephen. I have told myself I'm not allowed to buy any more dead tree books until I've sent the measurements for our new bookcases to the carpenter, but maybe I'll reward myself with an analytic dictionary when that's done
- March 6th, 2023, 9:32 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2777
John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
I finished 1 John! No doubt missing a lot of subtleties, but still, I think I can allow myself a brief bask in a warm glow of accomplishment. Now on with the gospel... I am finding a very specific challenge with the first eighteen verses in that the NRSV translation is sufficiently etched on my brai...
- March 4th, 2023, 4:14 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Poking the hive.... a question about using an interlinear
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3103
Poking the hive.... a question about using an interlinear
Hi, I'm a bit nervous about asking this and waking a hornet's nest, as I've picked up that general opinion of interlinears is quite low, but I'm not sure whether the way I use one is unhelpful, and if so what I should be doing instead. My main use case is when I'm looking at a verse and there's a fo...
- March 2nd, 2023, 8:49 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: 1 John 3.17 and 4.3
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2427
Re: 1 John 3.17 and 4.3
Hi Stephen, ἔχοντα is a masculine singular accusative participle Ah, yeah, that is where I was going wrong. Schoolboy error - I was parsing it as though it were ἔχονται, hence the desperate search for a subject in the nominative/plural. It all makes a lot more sense now. Thank you! The object of θεω...
- March 2nd, 2023, 1:51 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: 1 John 3.17 and 4.3
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2427
1 John 3.17 and 4.3
Hi again, I've run into another couple of verses that I'm confused by. First is 3.17: ὃς δ’ ἂν ἔχῃ τὸν βίον τοῦ κόσμου καὶ θεωρῇ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ χρείαν ἔχοντα καὶ κλείσῃ τὰ σπλάγχνα αὐτοῦ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ, πῶς ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ μένει ἐν αὐτῷ; I can't figure out what the subject of ἐχω is. It seems from th...
- February 28th, 2023, 7:35 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Differentiating Aorist and Imperfect 3rd person singular liquid verbs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2563
Re: Differentiating Aorist and Imperfect 3rd person singular liquid verbs
Oh, that looks immensely helpful, thank you. I've added it to my ever growing list of useful resources. I can't say how glad I am that I'm learning Greek now, rather than at school, when the internet was decidedly less useful. With a bit of luck before long I'll get to the point of being able to fig...
- February 28th, 2023, 5:39 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Differentiating Aorist and Imperfect 3rd person singular liquid verbs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2563
Re: Differentiating Aorist and Imperfect 3rd person singular liquid verbs
Thanks, that's helpful. I'm torn between being frustrated that figuring out any individual case is likely to require a level of comprehension that I'm not going to reach any time soon, and relieved that I had at least correctly understood the textbook...
- February 28th, 2023, 9:41 am
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Differentiating Aorist and Imperfect 3rd person singular liquid verbs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2563
Differentiating Aorist and Imperfect 3rd person singular liquid verbs
Hi, I'm just learning about liquid verbs, and the book I'm using (Duff) talks about how you can use accents to differentiate between Present and Future for verbs like μενω and κρινω which don't change stems. But there aren't any stem changes between Imperfect and Aorist, and obviously in most person...