This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... most part abandoned. And the question then comes to be--How such a man as St. James, for example, who never apparently left Palestine all his life, should have been able to write such Greek as is found in the Epistle bearing his name? The diction and style of that Epistle are universally admitted to make a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... most part abandoned. And the question then comes to be--How such a man as St. James, for example, who never apparently left Palestine all his life, should have been able to write such Greek as is found in the Epistle bearing his name? The diction and style of that Epistle are universally admitted to make a comparatively near approach to the classical models of Greek composition. Expressing the opinion which prevails on this point among biblical critics, Dean Alford remarks, "The Greek of our Epistle is peculiar. It is comparatively free from Hebraisms; the words are weighty and expressive; the constructions, for the most part, those found in the purer Greek.1... The Greek style of this Epistle must ever remain, considering the native place and position of its writer, one of those difficulties with which it is impossible for us now to deal satisfactorily." 1 1 Thus also continental critics. Credner, e.g., says of this Epistle, "Der Verfasser des Briefes legt enie feinere Bekanntscbaft mit der griechischen Sprache an den Tag." EM. % 219. And Thiersch describes it as "Ein Brief welcher an Feinheit der griechischen Diction zu den hervorragendaten Abschnitten des Neuen Testaments gehort." Versuch, etc.. p. 62. 3 Greek Tea., vol. iv. Part i. Proleg. p. 107. Winer feels and expresses the same difficulty when he says (R. W.B. art. "Jacobus"): The sentence which I have printed in italics contains a candid admission of the difficulty which the style of this Epistle presents to every one who holds the prevalent views with respect to the relation then subsisting between the Greek and Hebrew languages in Palestine. To all who agree with the eminent writer quoted, that Syro-Chaldaic was the prevailing language of the country, the ...
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