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This is a bit tricky, but we can gain considerable understanding from conditional clauses if we take the time to think them through. Voice Voice is that property of the verbal idea which indicates how the subject is related to the action. In Greek, the active and passive voices are just like the English equivalents, but the Greek has an additional voice called the Middle Voice which has a reflexive force. Greek Voices VOICE THOUGHT EXAMPLE Active Passive Middle The subject of the verb produces the action us. The subject of the verb receives the action The subject of the verb participates in the results of the action “But God shows his love for us…” (Rom. 5.8). “...but you were sanctified, you were justified…” (1 Cor. 6:11). “He himself secured eternal redemption” (Heb. 9:12). The middle voice is peculiarly Greek in its usage and defies exactness of translation into English. But we can understand several things about its various uses. 1. It refers the action back to the one acting. The action in some way reflects back upon the subject of the verb. It can have roughly the force of a reflexive pronoun as we would use it in English. For example, “…I will myself be a Father to him…” (Hebrews 1:5, italics mine) in which the verb will be is in the middle voice. 2. It can have the force of emphasizing the part taken by the subject of the verb as in “…having by himself made a cleansing of sins…” (Hebrews 1:3, literal translation, italics mine). 3. It can represent the subject as voluntarily yielding himself to the action of the verb, e.g., “Why not let yourselves be wronged?” (1 Corinthians 6:7, literal translation, italics mine). Perhaps these examples are enough to give the flavor of the middle voice. Your own investigations of its specific use can, I hope, lead you to the local significance as you encounter its use in the Greek text of the New Testament. Prepositions Though they are usually very small words, a great deal of meaning can be determined by their usage. The diagram and chart which follow will illustrate how far-reaching their effects can be. Please refer to the diagram on the next page. Basics Of Bible Interpretation – page 98
Diagram of the Directive and Local Functions of Prepositions Basics Of Bible Interpretation – page 99
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Contents Introduction .............
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Introduction I hope that this book
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Phase 1 Back to Basics Basics Of Bi
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Notice, in the same way God blesses
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2 Is Anybody Listening? God still
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easily explain our lack of agreemen
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Version, the Revised Standard Bible
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But at the third paragraph I was di
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commentary; or a concordance. But h
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4 Interpretive Principles So you h
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may write his thoughts. If we can u
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What CHRIST said…in the Upper Roo
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The Problem: Failing to respond to
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…Jesus our Lord…was put to deat
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And when we read “God came down
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5 The Interpretive Process Four ma
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Let’s Try It! For example, our Lo
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of ministry this verse represents i
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approach to Bible study. It has uni
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Jesus, the Messiah ‣ The Anticipa
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B. THE EPISTLES The Explanation of
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Page 49 and 50: The Microscopic View Now we come to
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Page 87 and 88: point of analogy? Is each Israelite
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Page 95 and 96: The Indicative Mood In English this
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Page 109 and 110: Most translations take these verbs
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Page 133 and 134: Metzger, Bruce M., The New Testamen
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