New Testament Greek Sentence Diagrams As Published in BibleWorks Nestle-Aland 28th Edition Greek Text www.NTGreekGuy.com SAMPLE Randy A. Leedy www.NTGreekGuy.com New Testament Greek Sentence Diagrams As Published in BibleWorks by Randy A. Leedy www.NTGreekGuy.com Diagrams: © 2005, 2019 Randy A. Leedy and BibleWorks, LLC SAMPLE Greek New Testament Text: Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th Revised Edition, edited by Barbara and Kurt Aland, Johannes Karavidopoulos, Carlo M. Martini, and Bruce M. Metzger in cooperation with the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Münster/Westphalia, © 2012 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart. Used by permission. Dedication This work is dedicated to Mike Bushell Michael Tan and the hard-working staff of the former BibleWorks, which commissioned the creation of these diagrams. Under the Lord’s blessing, it was a great run, brothers! Thank you for letting me play my small part. 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No part of this Agreement shall be interpreted as applying to the Greek New Testament text (Nestle- Aland, 28th edition), which is used in The File under permission from its copyright holder, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart, which retains all rights and prerogatives over its use and has agreed to the usage terms for The File set forth above. Copyright © 2005, 2019 Randy A. Leedy and BibleWorks, LLC www.NTGreekGuy.com SAMPLE Introduction to the BibleWorks New Testament Greek Sentence Diagrams Documentation Package Overview The documentation provided for the BibleWorks Greek NT sentence diagrams consists of four documents. The first—this one—presents basic orientation to the diagrams and the supporting documentation. The other three parts appear and the end of the document, after the diagrams. The first of those appendixes is a primer on Greek sentence diagramming written for Biblical Viewpoint (the former journal of the School of Religion of Bob Jones University), the second presents a detailed description of the diagramming policies followed in the preparation of these diagrams, and the third presents a set of notes on grammar and diagramming issues related to specific NT passages, in canonical order. These passage notes also appear as document comments in the right-hand margin of the sentence diagrams themselves, but for easier searching and to facilitate a variety of uses of that material, I have provided them in running text form as well. I beg the reader’s indulgence regarding my extensive use of the passive voice and especially of the first person, in violation of ordinary conventionswww.NTGreekGuy.com of academic writing. My intention in this document is not to legislate a set of policies that must be followed in Greek sentence diagramming but rather to describe what I actually do in my own diagramming and what I did in these diagrams in particular. I make no claim that mine is the only way, but I want the user of the diagrams to have available a fairly full description of what I did and why. Legislation could easily be written in the third person, active voice, but non-binding description of one’s own practices cannot. Please do not construe the use of the first person as egocentric, then, but rather as implying the reader’s liberty to deal with the matters under discussion otherwise than I have done. About the Author Assuming that I may continue to write in the first person, I identify myself as a native of Mansfield, Ohio,SAMPLE a graduate of Dalton High School (Dalton, Georgia, 1978) and Bob Jones University (Greenville, SC), where I earned the B.A. in Bible in 1982, M.A. in Bible in 1984, and Ph.D. in New Testament Interpretation in 1991. Beginning in 1982 I served at Bob Jones University as a Graduate Assistant teaching Greek, a supervisor in the J. S. Mack Library, a Bible curriculum writer for the Bob Jones University Press, and, from 1994 until 2019, as Professor of New Testament in the Bob Jones University Seminary. I have also been privileged to serve local churches in the roles of Sunday School teacher, visitation director, elder, assistant pastor, and pastor. I am married to the former Katie Rymer, of Westerville, Ohio, and God has blessed us with three children (Diana, Benjamin, and Daniel) and, so far, two children in-law and five grandchildren. Since it is not possible to do the kind of work represented by these diagrams from a presuppositional vacuum, I wish to inform the reader of the theological persuasion with which I approach my work. I understand that many users of the diagrams will not share this persuasion, and the discussions included in this document do not engage in arm- twisting. Those who disagree with me will nevertheless want to know where I stand so that they may take that stance into account as they make whatever use of this work they may. I locate myself firmly within the Fundamentalist branch of Protestant Christianity, intending Fundamentalist in its classic sense when it was coined in early 1900s. Based on the Bible’s statement about itself, I believe that the sixty-six canonical books of scripture are God’s authoritative Word, given originally by a miraculous and unexplainable process by which God spoke through the human authors in such a way that their words are His words, completely infallible and inerrant in every particular, though subject to misunderstanding and imperfect transmission resulting from the fallibility of those who have handled them subsequently to the original writing, whom God did not see fit to continue to protect from all error bywww.NTGreekGuy.com an ongoing miracle. In the reading and study of those books I subscribe to the grammatical-historical school of interpretation, and I believe that God has equipped humanity with tools allowing the careful, honest reader to discern the author’s original intention with an accuracy sufficient to allow him to grasp all necessary details of the intended message. Thus these sentence diagrams are not an exercise in laying out “what this passage communicates to me” but rather “what the author’s words indicate that he intended.” Of course I am not able to eliminate my own subjectivity as an interpreter; I cannot find that God has provided any means by which I can succeed in doing so. But I am constantly doing my best to find the most objective possible bases on which to choose among the various options for construing the grammar.