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Idioms of the Greek New Testament is a ground-breaking grammar written with Stanley E. Porter’s unmatched understanding of New Testament Greek. The work aids the student of New Testament Greek in a number of ways. It can be used as an instructive handbook, as an intermediate level textbook, and as a basic reference work. The major topics of Greek grammar are treated in a helpful pedagogical...

Chapter 1 TENSE AND ASPECT, AND PERIPHRASTIC CONSTRUCTIONS Introduction Since the days of the earliest grammarians of Greek, who happened to be Greek speakers themselves, it has been recognized that the verb occupies a very important place in the Greek language. This is not to say that other grammatical elements are not very important, or that there are not other languages which place similar importance on the verb, but the flexibility and range of usage of the verb in Greek commends it to further
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