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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...

Similarly, given the overlap between εἰς and ἐν in Hellenistic Greek (see ch. 8 C), it is unnecessary to distinguish between εἰς εἰρήνην and ἐν εἰρήνῃ after the imperative “Go!” as though εἰς always indicated movement. A. Plummer, for instance, comments on πορεύου εἰς εἰρήνην in Lk 7:50 this way: “ ‘Depart into peace,’ i.e. into a lasting condition of peace,” noting that ἐν εἰρήνῃ in Ac 16:36 and Jas 2:16 “is less strong, the peace being joined to the moment of departure rather
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