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Grammatical Insights is an extension of Nigel Turner’s conclusions in Moulton’s Grammar of New Testament Greek. This wide-ranging and illuminating study, invaluable to Greek and non-Greek scholars alike, provides a positive contribution to the permanent meaning of controversial passages in the New Testament. Here, Turner is concerned as much with the neophyte exegete as he is with the seasoned...

It is plain that if there is any causality in, for instance, that last sentence, it is quite the reverse of that supposed to be expressed by St. Paul in Greek. The sentence must be turned round, to get the priority of causation right: Christ became man’s first-born Brother in order that man might be conformed to Christ’s image. Our strong suspicion therefore is that eis to-with-infinitive is a construction which does not necessarily express the result of strict causality in the theme of the epistle
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