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These studies and translations of the Greek New Testament are simplified commentaries on the Greek text for the Bible student who is not conversant with the Greek language. The set includes commentaries on the Gospels and Epistles; graphic elucidations of selected passages, words, and phrases; and devotional studies on the teachings of Jesus and the apostles.

pursue one’s own shadow.… That toil is mataios (ματαιος) (vain) which can issue in nothing …; that grief is mataios (ματαιος) (vain) for which no ground exists …; that is a mataios euche (ματαιος εὐχε) (a vain prayer, entreaty, wish or vow) which in the very nature of things cannot obtain its fulfilment …; the prophecies of the false prophet, which God will not bring to pass, are manteiai mataiai (μαντειαι ματαιαι) (vain prophesyings) (Ezek. 13:6, 7, 8); so in the N.T. mataioi kai anopheleis zeteseis
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