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The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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Thoughts on Love and Care (Monday with Mounce 121)
My dad is very well known as a scholar and a translator. His commentary on Revelation is still the standard. But what many people don't ...
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Were the Demons Women? Luke 8:30 (Monday with Mounce 120)
When the demon saw Jesus coming, he cried out, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?  I beg you, do not tormen...
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More on the Subjunctive with "May" and "Might" (Monday with Mounce 119)
A few blogs back I talked about my growing apprehension with connecting "may" and "might" by default with the subjunctiv...
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To Judge or Not to Judge - Matt 25:32 (Monday with Mounce 118)
In speaking of the final judgment, Jesus says, “All the nations (τὰ ἔθνη) will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people (αὐτο...
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My Second Thoughts about Subjunctives in Purpose Clauses (Monday with Mounce 117)
This has been an issue for me for several years now. When I was first writing my grammar, I taught the subjunctive as I had been taught. Bu...
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Adverbial Participles and Finite Verbs (Monday with Mounce 116)
I came across a great illustration today of the relative significance of aorist adverbial participles and finite verbs in Matt 2:8.
(Boy, th...
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Is there a difference between “certainly” and “never”? - Matt 5:20 (Monday with Mounce 115)
One of the beauties of knowing Greek is that you get to see nuances of meaning that are often lost in translation. It’s not that the transla...
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A New Game: Supply the Missing Word (Monday with Mounce 114)
When we are speaking our native language, we have such an intuitive feel for it that we often leave out words. This certainly is true in En...
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Antecedents and Faith - Eph 2:8-9 (Monday with Mounce 113)
Paul writes that "For by grace (χάριτι) you have been saved through faith (πίστεως), and this (τοῦτο) is not of yourselves, it is the...
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When is a Perfect a Present? [οἷδα] (Monday with Mounce 112)
Someone asked me a while back about the “perfect” οἷδα and whether its tense helps us understand what Jesus is saying in Mark 13:32-33.
“Bu...
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Was Paul Married [ἄγαμος]? (Monday with Mounce 111)
This has always been an interesting question.
In 1 Cor 7:8, Paul writes, “Now to the unmarried (ἀγάμοιος) and to the widows (χήραις).” It i...
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How Can “Time” Mean “Delay”? - Rev 10:6 (Monday with Mounce 110)
I found a great example of semantic range, and why it is so important to always check the full entry in BDAG. In Rev 10:6 the angel takes a...
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Who reigns in the Millennial Kingdom? Rev 20:4 (Monday With Mounce 109)
The people who come to life and reign with Christ for 1,000 years are “the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus ...
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2 Pet 1:20—Can an Individual Interpret Scripture? (Monday with Mounce - Repost)
2 Pet 1:20-21 are important verses for our doctrine of Scripture, and so it should come as no surprise that there are some differences of ...
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Where Did v 4 Go in John 5:4? (Monday with Mounce - Repost)
My wife Robin came home from a Christian speakers conference yesterday and told me about a discussion they had. John 5 was the passage und...
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Classical and Koine on “New” (Monday with Mounce: Repost)
Language changes. It is one of the undeniable, universal truths of reality. Events can slow the development of a language down, like the K...
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