Clip (<5 mins)
New TestamentBiblical Languages
Evangelical
Splitting long Greek sentences (1 Tim 1:6)
Theologian
Bill Mounce
Duration
4.14
Uploaded to YouTube
5 December 2019
Added to Database
17 December 2025
YouTube description
When Greek lays out a sequence of events, it tends to use anarthrous participles followed by an indicative verb. The question for the student is how to translate the participle into proper English. In our passage, the participle is actually telling us why the false teachers turned aside to error.