and Sophocles, Herodotus and Thucydides, Plato and Plutarch, Demosthenes and Paul, John and Tricoupis. Greek is not dead. Language has a history and can only be understood rightly by a long view of its whole career. 4. The older grammars gave the literary Attic as the basis of the Greek New Testament and left out of view all the other dialects save in footnotes. Even the later Attic was given scant justice, while the vernacular came in for little consideration. The vernacular language has received
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