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This blog is designed to help people who have learned, or are learning, Greek. It picks a specific passage where a knowledge of Greek will help you understand the text better. As the name implies, it comes out every Monday. It is also posted at the Koinonia blog by Zondervan.

 

Monday with Mounce is Moving

published by Bill Mounce on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:47
Monday with Mounce

Sorry for the confusion, but I have decided to move my Greek blog to Teknia, my main website for teaching Greek. If you want to subscribe to the Greek posts, you will need to do so there. For the time being, I will continue my Life is a Journey blog here. 

Hell, Hades, Gehenna, and the Realm of the Dead (Acts 2:27)

published by Bill Mounce on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 21:31
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Hell is a slippery concept; and no, I’m not talking about recent debates. I am talking about what the word ᾅδης means.

I was reminded of this in reading the NIV of Acts 2:27. Peter cites Ps 16:10 as fulfilled in Christ. “You will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay.” Why did the NIV switch from “grave” (1984) to “realm of the dead”? (I was not on the CBT when this change was made, so I was not part of the discussion.)

ᾅδης occurs ten times in the New Testament. In eight the NIV translates ᾅδης as “Hades.” In Acts 2:27 and in Peter’s following comment (v 31), it translates ᾅδης as the “realm of the dead.” In our passage, most translations simply write ”Hades” (NASB, NRSV, HCSB, NET) or “Hell” (ESV, KJV).

Filling Pails and Throwing Water on Fires (the Log College of William Tennent)

published by Bill Mounce on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 21:01
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I started this blog with the title, "The Difference a Comma Makes (Acts 5:18)." You will see why I changed it.

We all know that commas are not part of the biblical text, and yet they are required by English. To someone just starting their Greek career, it may not seem that commas deserve much attention; but Acts 5:18 gives a good example of why a comma can make all the difference.

I was reading the NIV the other day and came across this verse. “Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.” What is the relationship between the “associates” and the “Sadducees”? In English, there are two.

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