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Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament: An Essential Reference Resource for Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Prepositions are important in the exegesis of the Greek New Testament, but they are at the same time very slippery words because they can have so many nuances. While Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament rejects the idea of a “theology of the prepositions,” it is a study of the numerous places in the Greek New Testament where prepositions contribute to the theological meaning of...

“Both in time and at first in order” case came before prepositions (Robertson 567). From the point of view of historical development, prepositions did not “govern” the case of a noun but rather helped to define more precisely the distinctions indicated by the case forms or were added to recapture original meanings; the accusative basically denoted direction (“Whither?”); the genitive, separation (“Whence?”); and the dative, location (“Where?”). That is, cases found in prepositions
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