This quarter in Greek

Well this 3rd and final quarter of Greek should be very interesting. We have a few more chapters in our beginning grammar to cover, more vocabulary to learn, as well as tackling some more advanced topics in our intermediate grammar.

Besides all of that, we will be translating 1 John 1-3 and each of us will pick a section from these chapters and write a 5-page exegetical paper on that section. For mine, I have chosen 1 John 3:11-18, primarily because 1 John 3:18 is one of my favorite verses (in bold below). Here's the NIV version:

This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous. Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

So it will be quite the fun and challenging quarter. But I look forward to truly diving into this...