Showing posts with label Grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grammar. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

"From ... Youth" - an important Hebrew Idiom

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The expression "from ... youth" is a Hebraism - a Hebrew expression we find in lots of places in the Old and New Testaments.  It g...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Greek Participles - Particularly Substantival Participles - Especially Generic Substantival Participles - Some Study

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Introduction We start our consideration of the Greek participle, by going back to Classical Greek.  For this analysis, I'm relying on va...
Friday, July 04, 2025

Gregory of Nazianzen and the Grammar of the Johannine Comma

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Gregory Nazianzen (aka Gregory of Nazianzus) (329-390), in his Fifth Theological Oration (Oration 31), section XIX, is sometimes quoted in t...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Hendiadys and the Granville-Sharp Rule in the King James Version

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 The most famous Granville-Sharp Rule, one of six, states:  When the copulative kai connects two nouns of the same case, if the article ho ...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

John 6:44-45 - A Grammatical Note

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One of the key texts on which Arminians and Calvinists disagree is John 6:44-45. That passage states: John 6:44-45 No man can come to me, e...
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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Dan on Pluperfects Again

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I had previously pointed out how Dan was misunderstanding the pluperfect tense as applied to Acts 13:48 ( link ). Unfortunately, Dan does n...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Grammar Lesson for ChristianTruthHammer

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This is a response to ChristianTruthHammer and his "simple grammar lesson for James White and his followers." In this response I ...
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