Excerpt from A Greek Grammar to the New Testament, and to the Common or Hellenic Diction of the Later Greek Writers: Arranged as a Supplement to Dr. Philip Buttmann's "Intermediate or Larger Greek Grammar" In the mean time, however, the attention devoted by philo logists to the structure of the Greek language had greatly in creased the stock of grammatical knowledge; and the labours of Fischer, Hermann, Mattliiw, Buttmann, Lobeck, and Elms ley, had entirely exploded the system of the older gramma rians. Under these circumstances, Dr. George Benedict Winer, Professor of Theology at the University of Erlangen, in Ba varia, published, in 1822, his Grammatik ales neutestamentli chen Spracliidioms, als sickere Grundlage der neutestamentlichen Exegese bearbeitet; and the work has been greatly augmented, and altogether remodelled, in subsequent editions.' Availing himself of the researches which have been so successfully insti tuted, more especially by Sturz, Planck, Tittmann, and Lobeck, into the character and composition of the New Testament dic tion, he has distinguished what is really Hebraism from that which belongs equally to the Greek or to all languages indif ferently and has shown that, although many of the forms and constructions may find a parallel in the most approved speci mens of Attic elegance, still the true basis of the language, employed by the sacred writers, is the popular dialect of con quered Greece. A New Testament Greek Grammar, written in Latin, was published in 1829 by J. C. G. Alt, but it con tains little, if anything, which is not to be found in W iner, whose extensive, and, for the most part, very accurate re searches will form the necessary groundwork of all future in quiries into this highly important branch of biblical inter pretation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.