The syntax and synonyms of the Greek Testament

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...fir, cogitationem rei." ov implies non-existence simply; but firj implies non-existence, when existence was probable or possible. ov is negative; pvq is privative. We may render firj by except,' without,' omitting,' abstaining from,' avoiding;' in every instance including the idea, that what is said not to exist, might have existed, roiis firj marevaavras aircoXeaev means, those who, having the opportunity, refused to believe. A. 9. 9, fy rjfiepa; rpels firj fiXeircov, Kal Ovk efayev ovSe eiriev. ov /3Xeirav would simply mean that he was blind. firj fiXeiraiv, without sight, one in whom the faculty of sight was suspended for a season. "Ovk eav simpliciter est prohibere; firj eav autem dicitur quum quem credas siturum non sinit." 1 J. 5. 16, dfiaprdvovra dfiapriav firj 71736? ddvarov, which he conceives to be not unto death: 17, absolutely, eariv dfiaprla ov 71736? davarov. When the negation is confined to a single word, the direct opposite is affirmed, as ov $rjfu, I deny: 17 oh SidXvais, the non-dissolution: ci rjKiara, especially: ov vmayovfuu, I refuse. If the single word refers to something dependent on the thought or mental idea, then firj is used: Thuc. i. 22, To /iij fivdaiSes airwv, their want of fables,' in the reader's estimation. The spirit of many passages depends on our preserving this privative or reversive power of the negative: 1 C. 2. 14, ifrviKos Se avdpanros ov Siveral, rejects, disowns: M. 15. 26, oiK eart Koxbv Xafieiv K.t.x., it is unfair, unhandsome to take: 22. 3, Ovk tfdeXov eXdelv, they refused to come: 18. 14, Ovk ear de.rjfia, it is contrary to the purpose: Rev. 12. 11, Ovk rrydirrjaav rr)v i-vrjv avraiv api davdrov, they disregarded their life to the point of death: R. 13. 10, 17 dydirrj T£...