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Greek Lessons
- Crossing Over: Aorist Participles, Narrative Flow, and the Motion of Matthew 9:1
- The Grammar of Pleading: Conditional Syntax and Subjunctive Permission in Matthew 8:31
- The Grammar of Silence: Commands, Purpose, and the Messianic Secret
- “What to Us and to You?”: Demonic Recognition and Eschatological Grammar in Matthew 8:29
- Whispers of Identity: From Prophets to Pronouns in Mark 8:28
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Tag Archives: 2 Corinthians 7:14
Boasting and Integrity: A Koine and Classical Greek Comparison of 2 Corinthians 7:14
Ὅτι εἴ τι αὐτῷ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν κεκαύχημαι, οὐ κατῃσχύνθην, ἀλλ’ ὡς πάντα ἐν ἀληθείᾳ ἐλαλήσαμεν ὑμῖν, οὕτω καὶ ἡ καύχησις ἡμῶν ἡ ἐπὶ Τίτου ἀλήθεια ἐγενήθη. (2 Corinthians 7:14)
For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was in truth, so also our boasting to Titus proved to be true.
Koine Greek Grammar and Syntax Analysis ὅτι — Causal conjunction: “for,” introducing the reason for the previous statement. εἴ τι… κεκαύχημαι — Conditional clause: εἴ + aorist or perfect. κεκαύχημαι is perfect middle/passive indicative, 1st person singular of καυχάομαι: “I have boasted.”… Learn Koine Greek