I write today to commemorate the cold outside today in Greenville. 14º when I walked to work. I could barely read J. P. Louw’s article on NT lexicography in this book, the air was blasting me so forcefully.
It is too cold for sentient life. I did see some freshmen outside, however.
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Why I Preach from the Received Text is an anthology of personal testimonies more than it is a collection of careful arguments. It is not intended to be academic, and I see nothing necessarily wrong with that. But it does make countless properly academic claims, and...
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Quit complaining! 😉
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Look! Mark said “however”!
Not the first time though: http://tinyurl.com/87wcmn
🙂
I was thinking it was starting to feel like home around here.
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