Suppose my house is in a remote area with no one in sight to call my neighbor. Or that my neighborhood is spread over a wide metropolitan area. Would one living two miles away from my house be less my neighbor than my next-door neighbor? Jesus commanded us, You shall love your neighbor as yourself …
Editor’s note: This post is excerpted from The Proselytizer, the autobiographical account of 20th-century Greek minister Panos Zachariou, who witnessed divine intervention during business failures, poverty, war, captivity in a German concentration camp, mass execution, and repeated imprisonment for sharing the gospel. The account was edited and prepared for publication by his son Philemon Zachariou, …
Philemon Zachariou is a native Greek, a retired Greek professor, and the author of Reading and Pronouncing Biblical Greek: Historical Pronunciation versus Erasmian. He currently develops New Testament Greek instructional material, is an adjunct professor of English at Northwest University, and a BibleMesh Greek tutor. Two Greek words, σχῆμα and μορφή, generally understood as figure …
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Tapping into Modern Greek can shed light on the New Testament text in sundry ways. An example is the words King Agrippa directed at Paul before the Sanhedrin according to Acts 26:28. Agrippa’s expression, the essence of which is preserved in Modern Greek, is idiomatic in nature. Thus a technical analysis of the type of …