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An Examination into the Significations and Senses of the Greek Prepositions is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the following volume, Herman Heinfetter shows that each of the Greek prepositions has its own particular, distinctive signification, or rather sense, and he shows what that sense is. The result of his examination into the significations of the Greek prepositions, is, that not any of them has any definite signification, but that each of them has its own particular definite sense which is...

according to the Context connected with it; or, in almost all cases, the Particular Sense that each Translator considers the Context to express; hence, in many cases, for aught that can be proved to the contrary, the same passage may be Translated in various Forms, and thus be made to convey, various, even sometimes, opposing Senses; and hence εν has no effect on the Significations, and in that case, might as well be omitted, since it expresses nothing. But let this be noted, that in every Signification
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