Cyber-Monday Greek Deal: Learn Beginning Greek

Your journey to read the New Testament in Greek starts with beginning Greek, and why not start learning Greek yourself with this special cyber-Monday offer? Beginning Greek Bundle Deal If you're the sort of person who would simply prefer to pay a one-off price for beginning Greek, here's a great deal! I've taken the beginning Greek course from the MNTG Mastery Membership and made it available for one-off purchase for Cyber Monday. The Master New Testament Greek beginning Greek course is based on Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek (either 3rd or 4th edition is fine). This course includes: My own chapter-by-chapter videos talking you through every concept Custom worksheets to help you master the concepts Guidance for using my favourite vocabulary and parsing apps Productivity and mindset hacks for mastering Greek Clear step-by-step homework for each chapter Normally you can only get my beginning Greek course as part of the Mastery Membership which costs $429/year. But for cyber-Monday you can purchase it for just $197, and its yours to keep. But that's not all. I've also bundled it with a couple of bonuses! Bonus 1: When I go through beginning Greek with Mastery Members, I record our calls and make them available for a week after each call. In these calls, we go through the workbook, and talk about the translations, and often expand on concepts in the grammar and even talk about concepts not found in the grammar. As a bonus, I'll give you a complete set of recordings of these beginning Greek call recordings - one for each workbook chapter. Total value of these call recordings: $100 Bonus 2: When you've finished beginning Greek, you'll want to start reading the New Testament and there is no better way to master the NT, than the Master New Testament Greek Student Edition. The MNTG Student edition provides you with the vocabulary for the entire Greek New Testament ordered from the easiest book to the hardest taking into account both lexical and syntactical difficulty. The student edition allows you to start reading the easiest books in the New Testament within days of finishing beginning Greek! The Student Edition is normally priced at $47. The Beginning Greek course and these bonuses are worth US$576. But for Cyber Monday, you can get them for just $197. Buy Now One More Thing: I've also put together a special offer for the MNTG Community Membership, the ideal complement to the beginning Greek course. The MNTG Community Membership gives you access to the entire MNTG community and all the events that we have on a weekly and monthly basis, including our Beginning Greek Office Hours calls. The Beginning Greek Office Hours is a great place to ask questions, get feedback and stay motivated. The Community Membership offers you: Online community of learners on the same path as you Beginning Greek Office Hours Intermediate Office Hours The MNTG Reading Academy Normally, the Community Membership is $25/month, but if you want to join for Cyber Monday, you can get 20% off by using code CMCYBER All this is only available until midnight tomorrow (Pacific). So click here to take advantage of these deals right now! Take the Next Step! In Christ, Darryl  P.S. Got questions? Hit reply and let me know how I can help! To make sure you keep getting these emails, please add support@masterntgreek.com to your address book or whitelist us. . Our postal address: 2 Pretoria Street, Rotorua 3010, New Zealand. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can *update your preferences or *unsubscribe from this list. Subscription Information This email was sent to Webmaster220 Bible Study Blog *the blog owner has deleted the hyperlink intentionally Want to watch the Master NT Greek You Tube Videos? https://darrylburling.com/

Monday with Mounce

 

When a Gloss is Not Enough Bill Mounce Sorry I have been gone for a while. Between a wedding, holiday's, travels, and finishing a book, life has been a little chaotic. But things are back to normal, at least for a week. I came across an interesting example of how words in idioms have different meanings. νυμφίος occurs 16 times in the Greek Testament, always with the meaning "bridegroom." Its cognate νυμφών means "wedding hall" or "bridal chamber and occurs three times (Matt 9:15; Mark 2:19; Luke 5:34). It also occurs as a variant in Matt 22:10 where our text has the related word γάμος. Interesting, the translations all translate it as "wedding guests" (ESV, NRSV, CSB, NET, NLT) or "attendants of the bridegroom" (NASB). How can an inanimate "wedding hall" become an animate "wedding guests" There are several clues. The NASB is so word-for-word that you should guess there is something behind the word "attendants." Also, if you check BDAG, you see further down the definition, "οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ νυμφῶνος (gen. as Ps 149:2; 1 Macc 4:2 οἱ υἱοὶ τῆς Ἄκρας) the bridegroom's attendants, that group of the wedding guests who stood closest to the groom and played an essential part in the wedding ceremony." In other words, when νυμφών occurs in the idiom οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ νυμφῶνος, word-for-word, "the sons of the wedding hall," its meaning is changed. And this is exactly what we have in our three verses. The NASB's use of "attendants" is an attempt to reflect the actual Greek word. Other translations interpret the idiom and thereby hide the Greek behind the English. (So much for "literal" translation.) I would assume that even if a translator thought "the sons of the wedding hall" was remotely understandable, the use of male imagery would encourage them to interpret the idiom and not say "sons." I am hoping some day to update my free online Greek dictionary to handle these sorts of constructions, as well as similarly difficult grammatical constructions. Until then, be sure to read the entire entry in BDAG. And don't rely on the gloss. So many times when people ask me for help, the problem is that they are stuck on the gloss and then don't understand that words have a range of meaning that can't be handled by the gloss. This is the kind of tidbit that encourages me to keep working on my Bible Study Greek approach that relies on computers. There is so much to be learned from the biblical text that even with a basic knowledge of Greek someone could dive deeper into the text, such as this idiom.

If you would like to offset my expenses of producing all this free content, feel free to give a little something. Give through PayPal BillMounce.com 523 NE Everett St., Camas, WA 98607                                                   Want to change how you receive these emails? You can *update your preferences or *unsubscribe from this list.   Subscription Information This email was sent to Webmaster220 Bible Study Blog                                                               *the blog owner has deleted the hyperlink intentionally William D Mounce, PH.D. William D Mounce (PhD, Aberdeen University) lives as a writer in Washougal, Washington. He is the President of BiblicalTraining.org, a non-profit organization offering world-class educational resources for discipleship in the local church. See www.BillMounce.com for more information. Formerly he was a preaching pastor, and prior to that a professor of New Testament and director of the Greek Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of the bestselling Greek textbook, Basics of Biblical Greek , and many other resources. He was the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version translation of the Bible, and is serving on the NIV translation committee.  Want to buy William D Mounce books on Alibris?

is your uniform washed?

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith. — Darryl Strawberry Restore God's Peace  by Darryl Strawberry, from Turn Your Season Around I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart. — Jeremiah 29:11–13    One of the few things I miss from my baseball career is suiting up in my uniform and taking the field with my teammates. Something about wearing the team logo and colors never got old. The uniforms were made of the highest quality materials and designed for flexibility. The fabrics were water resistant and breathed to help keep you cool on hot summer days. And in those chilly games in early spring and late fall, the uniforms had a lining to trap the warmth. The baseball helmets fit your head like a glove and provided a sense of security against those hundred-mile-per-hour darts coming at you from sixty-and-a- half feet away.   Wearing a uniform with my last name across my back made me feel like I belonged. I had made it to the top of my profession. Along with my teammates, there was no opposing baseball stadium that we didn't think we could conquer.     But I put on a different uniform now. It's called the full armor of God. This uniform is required to defend against and defeat the daily stealth attacks from the Enemy. Sadly, too many Christians think this uniform is optional. But choosing not to put on God's armor is conceding defeat and cheating yourself out of personally experiencing the promises of God's powerful presence.     It would be like dismissing Major League Baseball's published findings in 2020 that the 2017 World Series champion Houston Astros cheated in the Fall Classic against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The nine-page commissioner's report1 explains at great length how the Astros stole catchers' signs throughout the 2017 season by picking them up on a video feed and then letting the batters know what types of pitches were coming. The investigation's findings were also confirmed by former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers, who admitted as much to the Athletic, a sports journalism website. The commissioner's report notes further that former Dodgers player Alex Cora, who was then an Astros coach, coordinated the cheating scheme when he "arranged for a video-room technician to install a monitor displaying the center-field camera feed immediately outside of the Astros dugout."     With this equipment in place, Astros players could readily view the opposing catcher's signs in real time, decipher them, then transfer the information to batters by banging a trash can with a bat to signal specifically whether the pitcher was about to offer up a fastball, curveball, slider, cutter, or any other variety. Knowing what we know now about the Astros' illegal scheme, even the most jaded skeptics and Dodger-haters are left to wonder if the technology-driven heist of the Dodger's pitching signs robbed the city of Los Angeles of its first World Series championship since 1988.    Personally, I think it's a foregone conclusion that Astros batters knew what type of pitches were coming their way.   They weren't clairvoyant. They didn't accidentally or miraculously decode the signals. Coaches, players, and team staff conspired to devise a scheme to give their batters a competitive advantage on Major League Baseball's biggest stage when the stakes were highest. And so the World Series was like batting practice as Houston hitters piled up eighteen runs on twenty-six hits and six home runs in two series-changing victories over Dodger pitchers Yu Darvish, Clayton Kershaw, and Brandon Morrow, who had all previously dominated their postseason opponents.     OUR ENEMY     You and I also have an enemy trying to steal victory from us. The Bible is clear about the Enemy's strategy to divide and conquer the body of Christ through deceitful schemes.   He espouses counterfeit truths grounded in faulty premises.   He disguises utter foolishness as wisdom. He distracts with the lure of entertainment, lust, ambition, and greed. He promotes vanity as if it were a virtue. He employs false teachers and fake Christians — wolves in sheep's clothing — to pervert the gospel and mislead masses of people about the true meaning of love and godliness. He uses religion to replace the only thing that can truly heal a person's heart — a relationship with Jesus. He elevates all forms of spirituality to try to appease the need every person has to know God. In 1 Peter 5:8–9 (NKJV) we find a stark warning that would be foolish to take lightly:     Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.    Some Bible translations refer to "self-control" and being "watchful" — "always on the lookout" — for the enemy's schemes and attacks. If you have ever read National Geographic or watched the Animal Planet channel, you've probably learned that a lion stalks stealthily toward its prey only to pounce when the victim is least aware and most vulnerable. The king of the jungle doesn't make a grand announcement of his intentions to subdue his prey by biting and breaking their neck before ripping them apart limb by limb. No, a lion cleverly and quietly conceals himself in the tall grass or behind a rock, tree, or cluster of vegetation before pouncing on its unassuming victim. It's not until the damage has been done, the prey conquered, that the lion roars in elation over his conquest.     We are warned in Scripture about this lionlike adversary. To heed this warning, we must first acknowledge that there is an enemy who is intent on destroying both our lives and our witness for Christ. After recognizing the reality of spiritual warfare in our lives, we are called to actively resist the Enemy. Surely you've heard the old adage that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. That couldn't be truer.     You can plan on this: our Enemy is cunningly planning to trick, cheat, deceive, defraud, double-cross, and bamboozle us.     God's Word instructs us to remain steadfast in the faith. Steadfast means dutiful, resolute, firm, and unwavering. How do we do that? With the full armor of God, as the apostle Paul describes in Ephesians 6:13–18:     Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.    Our enemy is cunningly planning to trick, cheat, deceive, defraud, double-cross, and bamboozle us.   Excerpted with permission from Turn Your Season Around by Darryl Strawberry, copyright Darryl Strawberry.  Your Turn   Are you armed for battle? Are you prepared and aware? Cautious? Watching and waiting with the Lord leading? Come share with us! ~ Devotionals Daily  COMMENT Share this devotion with someone who needs it today. 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