The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 8, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: Hapax legomena in Ephesians for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians.

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God".

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 103.

The SSnet.org allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.

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https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_08.pdf

---Paul is sitting behind bars. Awaiting his trial maybe. It is lengthy trials with back and forth talking taking hours and hours.

---So he is a Roman and can receive luxuries requested, like a scribe who can write down what he dictates.

---The scribe is learned and fluent in Greek.

---So someone listed all the difficult words that appear only in Ephesians and nowhere else in the New Testament.

---And words that appears only in Ephesians, Luke and Acts and Hebrews. Paul wrote Hebrews too.

---But what I found in these lists is this. The scribe would take an easy Greek word and add a preposition to the front of it and “create” a new word.

---He had the tendency to what we may call an agglutinization.

---Old Sumerian was an agglutinative language. Korean is also an agglutinative language. They add to existing words other words and like they do with chicken, is to push chicken pieces in a stick. Sosatie it is called in Afrikaans.

---Why do people string their language by creating new words this way? Shortcut.

---Instead of writing long sentences saying the same thing, they save paper and time to add it together and express then a long sentence in a brevus = short way.

-Source:https://ia800204.us.archive.org/27/items/criticalexegetic00abbo/criticalexegetic00abbo.pdf

---So he will say “good thinking” as eu = good and noia = thinking.

---There is also a safety involved in writing like this. The ordinary soldier that has to look at the letter or book for security purposes, will not catch the main thinking in the book properly. It is not the way the ordinary people are talking.

---As the letter is carried to Ephesus it has to go through security check points to see if someone is hyping up rebellion against the “wonderful” Nero.

---One word may refer to Nero. Kosmokratoor. An earth power. Dictator thus. Kosmos means earth and kratoor means “power”.

---Elpizein means to hope and the scribe put a pro = before attach it to this word and created a new word proelpizein hoping before. Having hope in advance.

---This style is common in 1 Peter, Peter been with Paul in jail at that time, and Hebrews, Luke, Mark and Acts. Acts is also written by Luke and my wife thinks that Hebrews was also written by Luke. Both Acts and Hebrews end suddenly. Was Luke also killed?

---Why do they not speak simple but with rhetorics? Because Romans loved it very much. They thought it was smart to talk this way. So Paul wrote this way too. He was an expert in this style.

---Keep at it and understanding will come to you because the Holy Spirit is the interpreter of the Bible. He will help understanding.