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Adverbial Participles and Finite Verbs

published by Bill Mounce on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 20:47
Monday with Mounce

I came across a great illustration today of the relative significance of aorist adverbial participles and finite verbs in Matt 2:8.

(Boy, that sounds like a yawner. I should come up with a better lead-in. How’s this?)

Is the Great Commission to “Go,” “Make disciples,” or both?

Anacoluthon and Using Greek Tools (Eph 2:1)

published by Bill Mounce on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 23:14
Monday with Mounce

Eph 2:1-3 is a great example of anacoluthon, and seeing this explains some of questions raised about the translation of ὄντας.

“Anacoluthon” is a technical term for a change in syntax. To my 9th grade English teacher, it would just be a grammatical error.

Great Commission and Participles

published by Bill Mounce on Mon, 05/26/2008 - 01:46
Monday with Mounce

This morning it was said in church from the pulpit that the typical translation of Matthew 28:19 (“Therefore go and make disciples”) is incorrect because the Greek word for “go” (poreuthentes) is a participle and should be translated “going/ as you go.” Makes a reasonable homiletical point (day by day as you go through life, make disciples), but is it what Jesus said?