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In his analysis of the Greek text of 1 Peter, Mark Dubis provides students with an accessible guide through some of the most difficult syntactic challenges of the Greek language. Introducing readers to the most recent developments in grammatical and linguistic scholarship, Dubis includes an overview of Greek word order and the construction of middle voice. In doing so, Dubis helps students...

2:1 Ἀποθέμενοι οὖν πᾶσαν κακίαν καὶ πάντα δόλον καὶ ὑποκρίσεις καὶ φθόνους καὶ πάσας καταλαλιάς, Ἀποθέμενοι. Aor mid ptc masc nom pl ἀποτίθημι (attendant circumstance, functioning imperativally; on this function, see Wallace, 640–45). Here the participle takes on the imperatival force of the main verb (ἐπιποθήσατε in v. 2); it is not an independent imperatival participle (so also Michaels, 84). On independent imperatival participles in 1 Peter, see 1:14 on συσχηματιζόμενοι.
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