{"title":"Daniel Gregg","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"good-news-of-messiah-book-daniel-gregg-9781953084026","title":"The Good News of Messiah","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are some things hard to understand in Paul's writings and other texts. The Good News of Messiah straightens them all out. Here are the highlights: \u003cbr\u003e No. 1: To justify (δικαιοῦν) someone in Ancient Greek normally meant to administer justice to him. A judge would administer justice to a guilty defendant by either pardon, or punishment. He would justify the defendant, i.e. apply justice to him. God likewise applies justice to the faithful through his Son. The notes provide examples from the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historian Cassius Dio.\u003cbr\u003e No. 2: The words faith and believe in the usual English versions are mistranslations. The noun (πίστις) means faithfulness and the verb (πιστεύειν) means to hold faithful to someone or to hold something faithful. The noun and verb are derived from the adjective faithful (πιστός), which is synonymous with the verb (πείθειν) to obey. Out of more than 500 instances of these words most are conformed to these standards.\u003cbr\u003e No. 3: Often when Paul speaks of faithfulness (πίστις) he means Mĕssiah's faithfulness. See Rom. 3:22, 26; Gal. 2:16, 20; 3:22, 26; Phil. 3:9. These are the famous passages of the πίστεως Χριστοῦ debate explained by Wright and Hays. The author of the Good News of Messiah came to the same conclusions years before hearing of these scholars.\u003cbr\u003e No. 4: Paul sometimes rejected works (cf. Rom. 3:20; Eph. 2:9; Titus 3:5) and other times he taught good works (cf. Rom. 2:7, 13; Eph. 2:10; Titus 3:8). If a reader was uninformed about the Jewish context, then he could distort Paul's meaning to be a rejection of Gŏd's commandments. The notes explain that Paul was rejecting the Rabbinical doctrine of merits: the use of merits to pay off the debt of demerits.\u003cbr\u003e No. 5: Sometimes Paul used the word law in ways unfamiliar to the modern mind, but well known in Koine Greek and to careful scholars, such as a custom, or habit, or a legal norm, or a social status quo, besides the well recognized use for the Law of the Almighty. Gregg sorts all these senses out in the Good News of Messiah with careful attention to the internal and external contexts, things long lost, but which readily occurred to Paul's first readership.\u003cbr\u003e No. 6: The translation makes a plain distinction in the various Greek tenses and moods preserving the aspect and point of view of all tenses. The controversial and problematic Greek perfect is finally taken for what it is, a perfect progressive continuing into the present. Also the future perfect usage of the perfect and aorist tenses are recognized, and at the risk of some awkwardness English is molded to the sense. This idiom regularly occurs in the Hebrew scriptures also, and is indispensable in getting to the meaning and point of view of the writers.\u003cbr\u003e No. 7: The meanings of the word δικαιοσύνη (usually translated 'righteousness') are made plain when it means 'justice, ' a special problem to the English mind which separates righteousness and justice into two categories unlike Koine Greek and languages derived from Latin. Something that would never or seldom occur to the English reader is that the word used in a Jewish context may mean justice of specific forms: charity, mercy, or merit. These meanings come into view as Paul interacts with the Jewish doctrine of merit and Gen. 15:6, which already had a rich history of interpretations before Paul dealt with it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50111472009489,"sku":"GOR013859640","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51059277857041,"sku":"NIN9781953084026","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51630756725009,"sku":"NGR9781953084026","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1953084028.jpg?v=1750868502"},{"product_id":"good-news-of-messiah-book-daniel-gregg-9780979190797","title":"The Good News of Messiah","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are some things hard to understand in Paul's writings and other texts. The Good News of Messiah straightens them all out. Here are the highlights: \u003cbr\u003e No. 1: To justify (δικαιοῦν) someone in Ancient Greek normally meant to administer justice to him. A judge would administer justice to a guilty defendant by either pardon, or punishment. He would justify the defendant, i.e. apply justice to him. God likewise applies justice to the faithful through his Son. The notes provide examples from the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historian Cassius Dio.\u003cbr\u003e No. 2: The words faith and believe in the usual English versions are mistranslations. The noun (πίστις) means faithfulness and the verb (πιστεύειν) means to hold faithful to someone or to hold something faithful. The noun and verb are derived from the adjective faithful (πιστός), which is synonymous with the verb (πείθειν) to obey. Out of more than 500 instances of these words most are conformed to these standards.\u003cbr\u003e No. 3: Often when Paul speaks of faithfulness (πίστις) he means Mĕssiah's faithfulness. See Rom. 3:22, 26; Gal. 2:16, 20; 3:22, 26; Phil. 3:9. These are the famous passages of the πίστεως Χριστοῦ debate explained by Wright and Hays. The author of the Good News of Messiah came to the same conclusions years before hearing of these scholars.\u003cbr\u003e No. 4: Paul sometimes rejected works (cf. Rom. 3:20; Eph. 2:9; Titus 3:5) and other times he taught good works (cf. Rom. 2:7, 13; Eph. 2:10; Titus 3:8). If a reader was uninformed about the Jewish context, then he could distort Paul's meaning to be a rejection of Gŏd's commandments. The notes explain that Paul was rejecting the Rabbinical doctrine of merits: the use of merits to pay off the debt of demerits.\u003cbr\u003e No. 5: Sometimes Paul used the word law in ways unfamiliar to the modern mind, but well known in Koine Greek and to careful scholars, such as a custom, or habit, or a legal norm, or a social status quo, besides the well recognized use for the Law of the Almighty. Gregg sorts all these senses out in the Good News of Messiah with careful attention to the internal and external contexts, things long lost, but which readily occurred to Paul's first readership.\u003cbr\u003e No. 6: The translation makes a plain distinction in the various Greek tenses and moods preserving the aspect and point of view of all tenses. The controversial and problematic Greek perfect is finally taken for what it is, a perfect progressive continuing into the present. Also the future perfect usage of the perfect and aorist tenses are recognized, and at the risk of some awkwardness English is molded to the sense. This idiom regularly occurs in the Hebrew scriptures also, and is indispensable in getting to the meaning and point of view of the writers.\u003cbr\u003e No. 7: The meanings of the word δικαιοσύνη (usually translated 'righteousness') are made plain when it means 'justice, ' a special problem to the English mind which separates righteousness and justice into two categories unlike Koine Greek and languages derived from Latin. Something that would never or seldom occur to the English reader is that the word used in a Jewish context may mean justice of specific forms: charity, mercy, or merit. These meanings come into view as Paul interacts with the Jewish doctrine of merit and Gen. 15:6, which already had a rich history of interpretations before Paul dealt with it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51010192048401,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51010194931985,"sku":"NIN9780979190797","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52960766394641,"sku":"GOR014669714","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0979190797.jpg?v=1786134560"},{"product_id":"good-news-of-messiah-book-daniel-gregg-9780979190773","title":"The Good News of Messiah","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are some things hard to understand in Paul's writings and other texts. The Good News of Messiah straightens them all out. Here are the highlights: \u003cbr\u003e No. 1: To justify (δικαιοῦν) someone in Ancient Greek normally meant to administer justice to him. A judge would administer justice to a guilty defendant by either pardon, or punishment. He would justify the defendant, i.e. apply justice to him. God likewise applies justice to the faithful through his Son. The notes provide examples from the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historian Cassius Dio.\u003cbr\u003e No. 2: The words faith and believe in the usual English versions are mistranslations. The noun (πίστις) means faithfulness and the verb (πιστεύειν) means to hold faithful to someone or to hold something faithful. The noun and verb are derived from the adjective faithful (πιστός), which is synonymous with the verb (πείθειν) to obey. Out of more than 500 instances of these words most are conformed to these standards.\u003cbr\u003e No. 3: Often when Paul speaks of faithfulness (πίστις) he means Mĕssiah's faithfulness. See Rom. 3:22, 26; Gal. 2:16, 20; 3:22, 26; Phil. 3:9. These are the famous passages of the πίστεως Χριστοῦ debate explained by Wright and Hays. The author of the Good News of Messiah came to the same conclusions years before hearing of these scholars.\u003cbr\u003e No. 4: Paul sometimes rejected works (cf. Rom. 3:20; Eph. 2:9; Titus 3:5) and other times he taught good works (cf. Rom. 2:7, 13; Eph. 2:10; Titus 3:8). If a reader was uninformed about the Jewish context, then he could distort Paul's meaning to be a rejection of Gŏd's commandments. The notes explain that Paul was rejecting the Rabbinical doctrine of merits: the use of merits to pay off the debt of demerits.\u003cbr\u003e No. 5: Sometimes Paul used the word law in ways unfamiliar to the modern mind, but well known in Koine Greek and to careful scholars, such as a custom, or habit, or a legal norm, or a social status quo, besides the well recognized use for the Law of the Almighty. Gregg sorts all these senses out in the Good News of Messiah with careful attention to the internal and external contexts, things long lost, but which readily occurred to Paul's first readership.\u003cbr\u003e No. 6: The translation makes a plain distinction in the various Greek tenses and moods preserving the aspect and point of view of all tenses. The controversial and problematic Greek perfect is finally taken for what it is, a perfect progressive continuing into the present. Also the future perfect usage of the perfect and aorist tenses are recognized, and at the risk of some awkwardness English is molded to the sense. This idiom regularly occurs in the Hebrew scriptures also, and is indispensable in getting to the meaning and point of view of the writers.\u003cbr\u003e No. 7: The meanings of the word δικαιοσύνη (usually translated 'righteousness') are made plain when it means 'justice, ' a special problem to the English mind which separates righteousness and justice into two categories unlike Koine Greek and languages derived from Latin. Something that would never or seldom occur to the English reader is that the word used in a Jewish context may mean justice of specific forms: charity, mercy, or merit. These meanings come into view as Paul interacts with the Jewish doctrine of merit and Gen. 15:6, which already had a rich history of interpretations before Paul dealt with it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51010305655057,"sku":"NIN9780979190773","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0979190770.jpg?v=1750981520"},{"product_id":"resurrection-day-of-messiah-yeshua-book-daniel-gregg-9781953084002","title":"The Resurrection Day of Messiah Yeshua","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51059350765841,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51059352928529,"sku":"NIN9781953084002","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1953084001.jpg?v=1750901380"},{"product_id":"good-news-of-messiah-book-daniel-gregg-9781953084019","title":"The Good News of Messiah","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fresh translation of the New Testament with special attention to important theological words. 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