From: c stirling bartholomew (cc.constantine@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 02:00:55 EDT
Hi Dale,
How are things in Portland?
on 10/2/01 9:26 PM, Dale M. Wheeler wrote:
> Clay:
>
> You seem hesitant to accept Carl's explanation;
Not True, I was very happy with Carl's explanation. So happy with it that
there didn't seem to be much point in further elaboration. Carl is very
often right about these things. I have the utmost confidence in his judgment
on questions of Greek grammar.
> the same substantiving of a
> phrase occurs at Mark 9:23; Gal 5:14.
Yes, I have read these.
>The Eph passage essentially means,
> "Now this statement, "He ascended...", what does it mean, except this..."
Thanks for the translation. Sometimes translating does clarify things but
generally I avoid doing it.
>
> I think it may be time for you to "bite the bullet" and get a copy of
> Wallace...(-:
I have had a copy of Wallace available for several years now. I got the
county lib to purchase three of them. I leave it sitting on the shelf at my
local branch which I visit every day and bring it home perhaps three times a
year look at it for five minutes and then take it back. Grammars are a
matter of taste just like beer. Not every one likes Anchor Porter, some
people prefer Anchor Steam.
>
> If I might make an observation about commentaries...they are notoriously
> bad when it comes to really handling grammar;
Yes, this is generally true. The older they are the better they are
generally speaking. HAW Meyer's Handbook is pretty good.
>some of its because of
> editorial decisions to keep things brief, but in many cases its because the
> commentators' Greek grammar is not all that good to begin with.
E. Best seems to know Greek reasonably well.
Thanks for your comments.
warm greetings,
Clay
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
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