Greek I

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Greek I

• Present Middle/Passive Indicative
• (Chapter 18)

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Exegetical Insight The Divine Passive

• One of the ways that the passive voice is used is
  called the divine passive.
• This is when God is the obvious agent of the
  action, without His being explicitly named.
• maka,rioi oi penqou/ntej( oti auvtoi.
  paraklhqh,sontaiÅ
• Umei/j ga.r evpV evleuqeri,a evklh,qhte(
  avdelfoi,\
• th/ ga.r ca,riti, evste seswsme,noi dia.
  pi,stewj\
• te,knon( avfi,entai, sou ai amarti,aiÅ

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Overview of this Lesson

• In this lesson we will learn
• the passive voice, in which the subject receives
  the action of the verb
• that the present middle/passive is formed by
  joining the present tense stem, connecting vowel,
  and primary middle/passive endings
• that in the present tense, the middle and passive
  are identical in form.

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English

• Voice the relationship of the subject to the
  action of the verb.
• Active the subject performs the action, e.g. I
  hit the ball.
• Passive the subject receives the action of the
  verb, e.g., I was hit by the ball.
• See the full chart of English tenses in the
  Appendix, p. 353.

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Greek Present Passive Indicative
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Master Personal Ending Chart
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Present Middle Indicative
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Present Middle/Passive Forms of Contract Verbs
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For Next Week

• Vocab quiz from chapter 18.
• Workbook Exercise 18.
• Read chapter 19 on Future Active/Middle
  Indicative, pp. 155-164.