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This volume provides students with a comprehensive guide through the Greek text of the Gospel of Luke. Together Culy, Parsons, and Stigall explain the text’s critical, lexical, grammatical, and linguistic aspects while revealing its carefully crafted narrative style. In all, they show the author of Luke to be a master communicator, well at home within the Greek biographical tradition.

21:25 Καὶ ἔσονται σημεῖα ἐν ἡλίῳ καὶ σελήνῃ καὶ ἄστροις, καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς συνοχὴ ἐθνῶν ἐν ἀπορίᾳ ἤχους θαλάσσης καὶ σάλου, ἔσονται. Fut ind 3rd pl εἰμί. σημεῖα. Nominative subject of ἔσονται. ἐν ἡλίῳ καὶ σελήνῃ καὶ ἄστροις. Locative. ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. Locative. συνοχὴ. Nominative subject of an implied ἔσται. ἐθνῶν. Subjective genitive. Lit. “distress of nations.” ἐν ἀπορίᾳ. Context (see 1:78 on ἐν οἷς). Although a causal reading makes good
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