Category Archives: Greek

Consonance and Assonance in Philippians 1:9-10

Posted on December 28, 2013 by jacobcerone

The holidays wreak havoc on one’s schedule. The regime of one’s day is thrown into disarray. As soon as our holiday started, my memorization of Philippians became a distant thought of the past. Last night on our drive home from … Continue reading →

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QOTD: Chrysostom on Pity

Posted on December 26, 2013 by jacobcerone

Βασκαίνεις, ὅτι ὁ δεῖνα πλουτεῖ; Καὶ μὴν ἐλέους καὶ δακρύων ἄξιος, ὁ τοιοῦτος. Ἀλλ᾽ ἐρεῖς εὐθέως γελῶν· Ἐγὼ δακρύων ἄξιος, οὐκ ἐκεῖνος. Δακρύων ἄξιος καὶ σύ, οὐχ ὅτι πένῃ ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ σεαυτὸν ἐλεεινὸν εἶναι νομίζειν. Are you bewitched (envious) because someone is rich? No, You should not … Continue reading →

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On Memorizing Philippians

Posted on December 23, 2013 by jacobcerone

As some of you know, I have taken up the task of memorizing Philippians. Here are some reflections on my approach and some of the results. Approach I try and dedicate at least 30 mins of concerted effort a day … Continue reading →

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Memorizing Greek Philippians

Posted on December 20, 2013 by jacobcerone

About a month ago, one of my Greek Grammar students asked me about memorizing scripture. He asked if I memorized scripture in Greek and Hebrew, or an English translation. Much to his disappointment, and mine for that matter, I answered, … Continue reading →

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Biblical Words and Their Meaningshttp://amzn.to/1Po2nqk

Posted on December 18, 2013 by jacobcerone

For those interested in Semantics of New Testament Greek, there are three works with which you should be familiar: James Barr’s Semantics of Biblical Language, J.P. Louw’s Semantics of New Testament Greek, and Silva’s Biblical Words and Their Meanings. Lucky for you, Silva’s book … Continue reading →

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The Tyranny of Spiritual Love

Posted on December 16, 2013 by jacobcerone

I thought I might torture you all with some more from Chyrsostom. This quote is a comment on Philippians 1:7. Καὶ τί θαυμαστὸν, εἰ ἐν τῳ δεσμωτηρίῳ εἶχεν αὐτούς; Οὐδὲ γὰρ κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν, φησὶ, καθ᾽ ὃν εἰσῄειν εἰς … Continue reading →

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Greek Like a Violin

Posted on December 11, 2013 by jacobcerone

This morning, Brian Renshaw, over at NT Exegesis, introduced me to Tavis Bohlinger’s Greek Like a Violin series. In this series, Tavis logs his Greek studies. His goal is to study Greek in a deliberate manner: no more haphazard study of Greek; define … Continue reading →

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QOTD: Chrysostom

Posted on December 9, 2013 by jacobcerone

“Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐπαίδευσεν αὐτὸν ἡ ἐλεημοσύνη· οὐκέτι ἐπιθυμεῖ  τῶν τοῦ πλησίον·  πῶς γὰρ, ὁ τὰ αὐτοῦ ἀποκτώμενος, καὶ διδούς; οὐκέτι βασκαίνει τῷ πλουτοῦντι· πῶς γὰρ, ὁ βουλόμενος γενέσθαι πένης;” For almsgiving teaches this: the one who gives no longer desires his neighbor’s … Continue reading →

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Learning Biblical Greek

Posted on December 6, 2013 by jacobcerone

As a part of my job as Dr. Black’s Research Assistant, I am occasionally asked to respond to emails inquiring about Greek resources and advice on how to further one’s development in the language. Here is a portion of the … Continue reading →

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Progress on Chyrsostom Project

Posted on December 5, 2013 by jacobcerone

Two days ago I introduced my plans to read through Chrysostom in a year. Yesterday, I mentioned the possibility of crowdsourcing the task of morphological tagging the text. I did the first paragraph as an example. For those of you … Continue reading →

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