Class Notes: November 10, 2007

Class Notes and Comments

Lesson 21: Important Sections and points (but read all the Sections):

144. See the Sidebar for the vocabulary list of all words.

145. Note, as Croy says, that "Contraction occurs only in the first principal part, that is, the present tense in all moods and modes and in the imperfect indicative." Also, the uncontracted forms are what you look up in the dictionary (lexicon), even though you will never see the uncontracted forms in the Greek text. E.g., the lexical entry is for ποιεω ("I do, make"), but the present active indicative 1st-person singular appears in the New Testament as ποιω, never ποιεω (ε+ω => ω).

146. Study the chart and points (1) - (8).

148. Read this and note the exception for καλεω.

149. Learn/memorize these reflexive pronouns. Note that there are no nominative forms, and that they are basically the corresponding forms of αυτος with a prefixed:
εμ- = "of myself" (singular)
σε- = "of yourself" (singular)
ε- = "of himself/herself/itself" (as well as the plurals "of ourselves/yourselves /themselves")

In the New Testament the personal pronoun αυτος can sometimes function as a reflexive.

150., 151. Memorize the forms of πας and read the section on its uses. This is a very common word, occurring 1243 times in the UBS4 Greek New Testament.

152. Do all the Exercises.

We'll again continue our reading with Κατα Ιωαννην The Gospel According to John, 1:43.