Showing posts with label Bill Mounce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Mounce. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Read and weep

The kingdom of God belongs to the poor in spirit.

Exclusively.


Having a bit of Greek will help, but work slowly through to the conclusion, here, and find blessing.

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

When you put it all together and shake it up

Bill Mounce:

When you put it altogether and shake it up, the ESV felt (in line with its translation procedures) that “letter” was too difficult in v 27 and went with “written code.”


If you have even a teensy bit of understanding of New Testament Greek, Bill Mounce is going to help you with his weekly posts on Koinonia. Here's the latest.

You can work out whether his argument succeeds, but it helps understand why, time and again, the ESV footnotes make the ESV a translation worth preaching on.