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War in the Bible: an Examination of Biblical Conflict and Violence
The Bible doesn’t flinch at portraying the world’s violence, especially during wartime. And while there is no such thing as a kind and gentle war, you might be surprised to learn t...
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Etymologies—A First Look (Monday with Mounce 9)
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:3
This is the first time in the blog I have dealt with the issue of etymology, so perhaps a few introductory comments a...
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Can you not sin? — (Monday with Mounce 8)
Passage: 1 John 3:6
What is the difference between saying, “I studied” and, “I was studying”? Both are in the past time, but there is anothe...
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You Do Not Receive Our Testimony (Monday with Mounce 7)
Passage: John 3:11
Keyword: second person
I have always had a bit of a soft spot in my heart for Nicodemus.
Jesus is the new kid on the blo...
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I can do all things — (Monday with Mounce 6)
Passage: Philippians 4:13
Keyword: antecedent, adjectives
One of the joys of knowing Greek is to be able to follow all the internal links th...
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Who is God’s Temple? (Monday with Mounce 5)
Key Passage: 1 Cor 3:16-17
It is always interesting to compare languages. There are some things so basic to one language that it feels stran...
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Monday with Mounce 4: Semicolons and Translation by Bill Mounce
Passage: Romans 9:4
In a world of dwindling sentence length and complex sentence structures, the semi-colon has fallen on hard times. It is...
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Monday with Mounce 4: Quotation Marks and Translation by William D. Mounce
Passage: Romans 3:27
I’ve been musing on the role of punctuation in translation, and last week we looked at the dash in Romans 3:25. In v 27...
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Monday with Mounce 3: Punctuation (dashes) By Bill Mounce
Verse: Romans 3:25
I don’t think I have ever been in a Greek class — either as a student or a teacher — in which punctuation was discussed a...
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Monday with Mounce 2: Prepositions and Christology by William D. Mounce
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:2
Key terms: Prepositions, Christology, deity
“Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord” (...
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Monday with Mounce 1
Passage: Romans 1:5
Key terms: Genitive
Paul begins his letter to the church at Rome by saying that through Jesus Christ “we have received...
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