A friend of mine has a book called Sparkling Gems From The Greek: 365 Greek Word Studies For Every Day Of The Year To Sharpen Your Understanding Of God’s Word which has always intrigued me but I didn’t want to spend the time reading it every day with all the other stuff I want to read.

Many of us were introduced to the new Koinonia blog and on Monday I read the post entitled Monday with Mounce 1. In reading the article I was interested to read his take on the Greek of Romans 1:5, even though I don’t know Greek. Then for some reason, to my surprise this well-known Greek scholar goes into application. This is very refreshing and to me very valuable. It reminds me of what the Sparkling Gems book contains but this is a manageable once-a-week article (not that Sparkling Gems couldn’t be read infrequently) and it’s free.

As an aside, it’s nice to see that although he served as the New Testament chair of the ESV Bible translation he also says that the TNIV (probably) got it right in this case. Which is nice to hear, since these two translations unfortunately often have two vehemently opposing camps.