From: Alan Cairns 

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:52:03 -0500, "Richard Hong"
 wrote:


>First of all, I don't think you appreciate the reliance that preachers place
>on scholarly works for word studies.  When a preacher says that this word
>means such-and-such in Greek, I assure you that he's repeating what he read
>in a scholarly work, not giving you his own word study.  (And yes, he'll do
>it without atttribution.  It is standard practice NOT to give attributions
>in sermons on allegations of fact.  So he won't say something like "Barclay
>says that the Greek word 'xyz' means 'abc'," but he would give attribution
>on opinions,  such as "Barclay says that this passage is talking about being
>a nice guy.")  Plus, most preachers shy away from word studies most of the
>time anyway.
>
I used to attend professor Barclay's lectures at Glasgow University,
because he was such an erudite and excellent lecturer.

Alan

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