Wept Jesus or Bit Paul the snake do not make sense, and Paul bit the snake communicates a new topic (Paul) with a new comment (bit the snake). In English “snake” and “Paul” are spelt identically regardless of whether they are the topic or comment. In Greek, Paul as topic would be spelt differently to Paul as comment (Παῦλος = Paulos for topic, and Παῦλον = Paulon for comment). This change in spelling is referred to as “inflection,” (from the Latin inflectio “to bend”). Greek is a highly inflected