Although he is a native Greek speaker, he is a native MODERN Greek
speaker which is much different from koine. Even if he was a native
Greek Koine speaker that doesn't necessarily mean he is an authority - I
am a native English speaker, but I'm no English professor.
As far as MacArthur's comments go, I find his argument rather stretched.
I think Occam's Razor comes in here - there are much simpler and more
coherent interpretations (like that of Steve Carlson's). Note that
MacArthur is very much a cessationist and very much an anti-charasmatic
as a reading of his 2 books against charasmaticism will show, so I
wonder how much influence his presuppositions play in his interpretation
of this text.
cheers,
Andrew
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