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A Short Grammar of the Greek New Testament, for Students Familiar with the Elements of Greek is unavailable, but you can change that!

B. B. Warfield once called Robertson’s Greek scholarship “monumental,” and George Truett said he “would exchange a billion dollars” for one of his grammars. Robertson devoted his life to the genius of the Greek language—its history and the individuals who have used it for speaking, writing, exegesis, and interpretation. At the time of publication, Robertson had taught Greek for twenty years and...

subjunctive and optative are difficult of scientific analysis. The subjunctive glides into the realm of the future indicative on the one hand, if indeed it is not a variation of it (see Homer), and into the sphere of the imperative on the other where in fact it is supreme in the first person. The optative is not alone wish or will. The potential idea exists also and the doctors differ greatly as to which is the original and how to relate the two conceptions. In the Latin the optative vanished utterly
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