2003/12/12

Use Your Greek in daily life (1)

Outline

Introduction

How Greek affect our daily life?

Religious use of Greek among Christians:

1. Appreciation of the literary artistry of the biblical writers,
2. Exegesis (clearer understanding): Romans 6, Matthew 28
3. Exegesis tools: Examples in Uses of Tools
4. Devotion,

Introduction

1. Greek fonts are in SPIonic font or BSTGreek font.
2. Download these two fonts and copy them to your computer.
3. Put them in c:\windows\fonts [for Win 95, 98, XP] or c:\winnt\fonts [for WinNT or Win2000]. They are font files only, so don't worry about virus.

How Greek affect our daily life?

1. The terms and culture as expressed in daily life: Greek architecture
2. Special uses: Science, astronomy, Mathematics.
3. English words: influenced from Latin, Greek (15%), French, and Saxon (or Welsh)
4. The Indo-European languages: Greek can help you learning Latin (Italian), German, French and other related languages. E.g. use of ending declension
5. Biblical Study: The original text of New Testament is in Greek. Thus the only way to understand it fully is in Greek. Plus, the Old Testament in Greek is called LXX. It has influenced the authors of New Testament deeply.
6. All the classical writers write in Greek or Latin. It is why these two languages are originally chosen as the must-learnt languages in England before.
7. For Christians, many important doctrines in systematic theology (e.g. Christology and other doctrines) are written mainly in Greek (some in Latin). They are formulated in Greek, in terms of Greek thought, in the creeds of the churches in the first three Century. E.g. Nicean Creed is in Greek.
8. Daily uses of Greek: Devotion, bible study (personal or small group), sermon preparation, doctrinal debate, biblical guidance (in search of new insights), and exegesis (deep analysis and prevent wrong concepts from translation or traditions)

Religious use of Greek among Christians:

1. Appreciation of the literary artistry of the biblical writers,
2. Exegesis (clearer understanding): Romans 6, Matthew 28
3. Exegesis tools: Examples in Uses of Tools
4. Devotion,
5. Exegesis (deeper analysis)
6. Exegesis (and prevent wrong concepts from translation or traditions)
7. Bible study (personal or small group),
8. Sermon preparation,
9. Doctrinal debate, (homo, homoi; ousia) Greek > Latin
10. Biblical guidance (in search of new insights: translation may misguide you.),

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1. Appreciation of the literary artistry of the biblical writers,

• poetry in Luke 2:14 (Greek in SPIonic font)

Semitic poetry by parallelism.

• Link of words in John 1:
• Shift of words in John 21: love, sheep

2. Exegesis (clearer understanding):

• Romans 6: What is the difference? (Will be seen in the 2. Exegesis 2.a )
• Matthew 28:18-20 What is the most important part?
• Why is called thanksgiving paragraph? What is the key to it? (·PÁÂ 2168 p.333)

3. Exegesis tools: Examples in Uses of Tools:

1. Word Study
1. Scholars' works: E.g. ¤Ú§JµÜµÛ ·s¬ù­ì¤å¦r¸Ñ. ¨Ò: agape

There are many works claimed to be ¡§word study,¡¨ but many of them are not up to standard. Use ONLY the scholarly works: E.g. One who has a Th. D. or Ph. D. degree from famous seminaries or universities.

2. Do it yourself: use Greek and English/Chinese Bible Concordance. E.g. Strong. Use the exhaustive concordance. Don¡¦t rely on them, you must check the work yourself ! (¸t¸g­ì¤å¦r·J¤¤¤å·J½s)
2. Exegesis
1. ¤¤¤å½u¤W¸t¸g·s¬ùparsing(http://bible.fhl.net/new/gparsing.html)
2. Greek and Hebrew Chinese Bible Concordance (¸t¸g­ì¤å¦r·J¤¤¤å·J½s) E.g. Romans 6: 1, 15 (verb: ¤´¦b 1961 + noun: ¸o¤¤ 266) ¦ý¦b15¸`(verb: ¥Ç¸o 264! ­ì®Ñ¼g¿ù¤F! ¦ýÃöÁä¦btense. )
3. Friberg, Barbara & Timothy. Analytical Greek New Testament (pp. 482, 484).

   6: 1 e)time&nwmen: present subjunctive active, 1^st p. plural. (verb: remain)

6:15 a(marth&dwmen : aorist subjunctive active, 1^st p. plural. (verb: sin)

4. Interlinear Bible may help you to grasp it quickly. E.g. Chinese¡CGreek¡CEnglish Interlinear New Testament.

Romans 6: 1 e)time&nwmen : May we continue

Romans 6:15 a(marth&dwmen : may we sin

5. Commentaries: Tyndale, NCBC, BST, WBC. NIC, ¬¡¬u·s¬ù§Æþ¤å¸Ñ¸g.

4. Devotion

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