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by Barry Hofstetter
February 17th, 2014, 10:08 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3
Replies: 40
Views: 11050

Re: Antecedant of LATREUO of Rev. 22:3

From what I can gather from this specific text, as Pronouns and their Nouns must match case, the recipient of LATREUO must match the case of AUTOU, which is Genitive Masculine Singular. According to the verse there are two possible recipients, THEOU or ARNIOU. THEOU is Genitive Masculine Singular a...
by Barry Hofstetter
February 17th, 2014, 9:24 am
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: πνεῦμα as Spirit or spirit?
Replies: 12
Views: 4453

Re: πνεῦμα as Spirit or spirit?

I wonder if this is the sort of thing that can only be resolved by a broader appeal to context with a view toward the author's usage in general, from the perspective of "What is the author most likely to mean here?" With Acts 18:25, we have a nice parallel in Rom 12:11, τῷ πνεύματι ζέοντες...
by Barry Hofstetter
February 15th, 2014, 8:39 am
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: βούλεται in 1 Cor. 12:11?
Replies: 14
Views: 4982

Re: βούλεται in 1 Cor. 12:11?

I disagree. I find this approach thoroughly unhelpful and probably confusing to beginners. The third person singular ending does not specify gender, just as it does not specify the color, height, crankiness, or any other potential attribute of the subject. Agreed. It can only determined by context ...
by Barry Hofstetter
February 15th, 2014, 8:30 am
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: πνεῦμα as Spirit or spirit?
Replies: 12
Views: 4453

Re: The special context and specific meaning

I think a dichotomy has come to exist between the understanding of Biblical and secular Koine literature. My guess is that because our attention is usually given to the Biblical texts, we see the word πνεῦμα as almost exclusively with meaning that is special to our context. Are you then saying that...
by Barry Hofstetter
February 14th, 2014, 8:29 am
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: πνεῦμα as Spirit or spirit?
Replies: 12
Views: 4453

Re: πνεῦμα as Spirit or spirit?

It seems that in English versions πνεῦμα is rendered as "Spirit" very often. Has that been discussed on B-Greek before? One of the things I noticed about going from New Testament Greek to Modern Greek was that πνεύμα (πνεῦμα) in Modern Greek is used far more often of the human mind / inte...
by Barry Hofstetter
February 12th, 2014, 7:51 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Romans 1:27
Replies: 4
Views: 1135

Re: Romans 1:27

The text in view is Romans 1:27. ὁμοίως τε καὶ οἱ ἄρσενες ἀφέντες τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν τῆς θηλείας ἐξεκαύθησαν ἐν τῇ ὀρέξει αὐτῶν εἰς ἀλλήλους, ἄρσενες ἐν ἄρσεσιν τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην κατεργαζόμενοι καὶ τὴν ἀντιμισθίαν ἣν ἔδει τῆς πλάνης αὐτῶν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἀπολαμβάνοντες. My question concerns the relationsh...
by Barry Hofstetter
February 6th, 2014, 10:26 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Did the Hebrew verbal system come to express time?
Replies: 7
Views: 2027

Re: Did the Hebrew verbal system come to express time?

No disagreement here, Randall. I will only say that one can come to an approximate fluency through reading if one does it right, but it takes a lot longer than actual production. A full orbed approach is the best.
by Barry Hofstetter
February 5th, 2014, 2:36 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Did the Hebrew verbal system come to express time?
Replies: 7
Views: 2027

Re: Did the Hebrew verbal system come to express time?

You are correct, Stephen. It's almost as bad as when some say that the Greek verb has no time. As often said, why does מחר 'tomorrow' never occur in the same clause with עשה or ויעש? The seminary narrative would predict some מחר עשה or ויעש מחר to occur, but we only have ועשה מחר or מחר יעשה or הוא...
by Barry Hofstetter
January 26th, 2014, 7:04 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Vinegar at the Cross
Replies: 13
Views: 3225

Re: Vinegar at the Cross

Are there any other instances you're aware of where the present tense of a verb is supplanted by another but the aorist is retained? This seems very strange to me; if a verb 'evolves' to take over the meaning of another verb why not use its aorist, too, instead of the hybrid arrangement suggested i...
by Barry Hofstetter
January 23rd, 2014, 2:04 pm
Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
Topic: Read lots! And then read some more!
Replies: 0
Views: 3791

Read lots! And then read some more!

Classicist Steven J. Willet posted this to the Classics List, pay special attention to that last paragraph... Three years ago I had been reading so much Latin that my Greek was getting rusty. So I decided to make a grand tour of the canon and visit old friends or meet new ones. Here in approximate c...

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