Passive voice

I came across a great “divine passive” that has some interesting implications for how we study the Bible and train our seminarians and preach to our people. “Divine passive” is more of a theological category than grammatical. In form and basic meaning, it is simply a passive, but when God is the author of the verb, we call it a “divine passive.”

And the answer is not that the verb is deponent. The answer has to do with the relationship between σα and θη forms.