hension of those who hear it, that, rather, they seldom attain to its entire meaning. The Apostles frequently deduce conclu sions, more weighty than the world itself, from an epithet, from a grammatical accident, or even an adverb, as we have shown in our Apparatus, Part. I., Section I. Chrysostom interprets the particle x«/ with emphatic precision in the writings of St Paul, and he, as well as the other fathers, render many other things in a similar manner, as we have remarked upon his book on the Priesthood, §§ 136, 441. It is right to follow these traces. In this spirit Luther says, The science of theology is nothing else, but Grammar, exercised on the ivords of the Holy Spirit;1 — a sentiment which has often been repeated since then by other theologians. This observation involves the examina tion of emphatic expression, in which the original signification of the words sometimes increases, sometimes decreases in intensity. Many modes of expression were emphatic in Greek, which are not so in German, as, for example, the employment or omission of the personal pronouns, seldom omitted by us, frequently so by the Greeks ; middle verbs, too, which are unknown in Ger man or Latin, but wThich are distinctively expressed in Greek ; and verbs simple or compound, such as yivuaxu2 and £T/y/vw<r?cw,2 which are expressed by one word in Latin or German, but which are different words in Greek ; and the article, which has no existence in Latin.
On the other hand, it frequently happens, that the apparent exceeds the real emphasis, as ov ^ 3 with the subjunctive ; as in the verb Jx/3aXXw,4 as in the preposition svrbg,5 as in the com-
1 "Nil aliud esse Theologiam, atque Grammaticam, in Spiritus Sancti verbis occupatam." — (I. B.)
2 yi»uax.u = to know, to be aware of, etc. For a full explanation of all the meanings and shades of meaning of the simple and compound verbs, see Schleusneri Lexicon in voc., where the first occupies five, and the latter two columns. — (I. B.)
3 oi> py a double negative frequent in classical as well as Scriptural Greek. With Fut. Indie, it forbids : with the Subjunctive, it denies ; but, in Eccle siastical Greek, often less emphatically. See Buttman, Matthisei, Kiihner, etc., on the subject. — ED.
4 ix.ftu.'Khu — lit. to cast forth, often no more than "to put forth." —ED.
5 IVTOS 5= within, often used in a weaker sense, than the literal. — ED.