Like most of you who have taken classes with teachers who provided grammatical and stylistic critiques of your papers, I was told to avoid the passive voice as much as possible. Yet I was never really completely convinced of the notion. The Greek New Testament is full of passives, I rebutted, and a grammatical active [...]
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Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek by Constantine R. Campbell
About two months ago, I happened to catch a Zondervan blog post that mentioned that they were giving away 20 review copies of Constantine Campbell’s Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek. I enjoy studying Greek, needed to learn more about the verbal aspect theory, and like free books, so I sent off my email [...]
No More Sea?
Does Revelation 21:1 teach that the new earth will not have large bodies of water ( θαλάσσας)—no more lakes, seas, or oceans? Most think so. The “sea” . . . must disappear before the eternity of joy can begin.1 The first hint of what the new heaven and new earth will be like comes in [...]
