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To: RaceBannon; NYer
Sentence diagramming doesn't WORK when you go from language to language. The Bible was not originally written in English.

The problem here is that Greek is an inflected language (like Latin - I dunno about Aramaic, NYer?) with gender, neither of which occur in English. Sentence structure in English fills the function that inflection performs in Greek. So word order doesn't matter in Greek, and you're wasting your time diagramming sentences. Everybody (at least everybody who can read Greek) knows the position and function of each word without bothering to diagram anything.

82 posted on 07/26/2005 5:42:57 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother

If sentence diagramming doesnt work just because of a translation, then the translation is in error

subjects and predictes and verbs and nouns are all arranged after translations, and the verse can then be diagrammed

and that means Peter is not the Rock, what Peter spoke told us what the ROCK is, not Peter.


87 posted on 07/26/2005 4:11:38 PM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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