![]() No one does this in their native language, but many Christians do this very thing when studying the Bible. For example, the word nice comes from the Latin root nescius, meaning “ignorant.” But no one but a fool would respond to your calling them “nice” by saying, “Oh, I see what you really mean! You’re saying I’m ignorant! You and your veiled Latin insults!” We can see the fallacy of this notion clearly in our native English language. Nevertheless, a problem arises when people mistakenly think that a word’s etymology tells them “what it really means.” It’s a valuable area to study, and nothing I’m about to say in this article is meant to suggest otherwise. Etymology deals with the “roots” of words-where a word originally came from way back in the foggy mists of time. ![]() When I was a homeschooling high schooler, I took a course on etymology. ![]() Usage Trumps Etymology: Avoiding the Root Fallacy This brief article is my effort to condense a couple of Carson’s lessons, in order to help us learn how not to use Greek in Bible study.ġ. Carson has called “ exegetical fallacies” (a book I was assigned three times in school).
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