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A Grammar of New Testament Greek, Volume 1: Prolegomena is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Prolegomena introduces foundational principles or premises upon which the subsequent three volumes build. It provides a sketch of the language of the New Testament. Originally published in 1906, its wide-spread success led to a second and third edition being released in the following two years. A hundred years later, A Grammar of New Testament Greek Vol. 1 is still considered an excellent...

CHAPTER 6 THE VERB: TENSES AND MODES OF ACTION OUR first subject under the Verb will be one which has not yet achieved an entrance into the grammars. For the last few years the comparative philologists—mostly in Germany—have been busily investigating the problems of Aktionsart, or the “kind of action” denoted by different verbal formations. The subject, complex in itself, has unfortunately been entangled not a little by inconsistent terminology; but it must be studied by all who wish to understand
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