{"id":87,"date":"2004-02-27T23:32:58","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T23:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/using_greek.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:47","slug":"using_greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/using_greek.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Using Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good article<\/a> about using greek in our Bible studies at DouglasJacoby.com. He advocates a rather high level of study for those who want to read adn study the Bible in the original Greek, and for good reason:<\/p>\n

\nIt is simply not realistic that a Greek scholar will be produced through dabbling, any more than that one can determine the answer to a calculus problem without having gone through the prerequisite steps: basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry, derivation and integration. Does this seem right?
\nAs one preacher quipped, “I know just enough Greek to be dangerous.” As Alexander Pope quipped, “A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinkly largely sobers us again.” Pope is right; and the languages of sacred scripture are not fit subjects for dabbling. In other words, if we are going to learn Greek, let’s “drink largely”\u2014go for it!\u2014aiming for excellence.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve often grown weary of those who insist on using the Greek often in their quoting and teaching of scripture. As if God was not capable of providing us with a suitable translation of scripure in English, and we must understand the original language to understand the Bible. Certainly there are pitfalls in any translation, but it seems that the core of Christianity and the heart of God is clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good article about using greek in our Bible studies at DouglasJacoby.com. He advocates a rather high level of study for those who want to read adn study the Bible inRead More Using Greek<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nUsing Greek - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/using_greek.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using Greek - salguod.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good article about using greek in our Bible studies at DouglasJacoby.com. 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