At Christmas we celebrate Jesus’ birth. But do we know when Jesus was actually born? I do not mean the day, month, or even the year of Jesus’ birth, only the very moment His earthly life began. Simple, yet utterly profound, this question beckons an examination of three Greek verbs and some of their derivatives …
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10b But we urge you, brothers, to do this [love one another] more and more, 11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed, 12 so that you may live properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one. 1 Thessalonians 4:10b-12 (ESV) In the 1360s, John Wyclif, morning …
The phrase “born-again Christian” has become almost cliché. Yet seen through a key Greek word in a dialogue between Jesus and Nicodemus, this common phrase can be clothed anew in meaningful truth. The word at issue is ἄνωθεν anothen “from above.” The word is formed from ἄνω “above” + -θεν, a suffix denoting origin of …
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Interested in learning Biblical Greek? BibleMesh Biblical Languages will guide you to become a confident reader of the biblical text—and it begins with taking your first steps. Find out more and get our Greek First Steps course for free. The thrice-repeated question “Lovest thou me?” Jesus posed to Peter after His resurrection as recorded in …
Interested in learning Biblical Greek? BibleMesh Biblical Languages will guide you to become a confident reader of the biblical text—and it begins with taking your first steps. Find out more and get our Greek First Steps course for free. First-century Greek speakers didn’t pronounce words like most modern seminarians are taught to pronounce them. While …
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