Talk:Henry Alford (theologian)

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, ALFY?
I have owned Alford's Greek Testament since around 1968, the 4 volume Moody Press edition. For figuring out what a verse means in the NT, I know of nothing better. Alf succinctly sets out the possibilities. This was written in an age where educated Englishmen knew Greek since their youth, trained in Greek, Latin, & the Classics. The Greek text is at the top of the page. Immediately below is a textual apparatus. Alf edited his own Gk testament. Below that in 2 columns are commentary including a running translation.

He has introductions to the books, which I think are still valuable. Overall, I rate Alf superior to its successor set, the Expositor's Greek Testament.

Alf is premil & Arminian; he thinks u could lose your salvation. But he doesn't seem to know about pre-tribulationism.

DRAWBACKS:

1) Alf assumes you are a scholar & a gentleman & know Latin. So he may give a comment like this: "The medieval monk, Euthymus Zig. precisely explains this verse:" Then Alf just like quotes the Latin & moves on. Oh that someone would reissue this book with the Latin put into English.

2) The textual apparatus of course doesn't have the 20th century discovered papyri.

3) I don't find all the symbols in the textual apparatus comprehensible or having the same meaning as in, for example, the United Bible Society's maroon NT.

AN ENGLISH EDITION EXISTS

There is an English edition of this work in existence (no Greek text at the top of the page; I think it has KJV & English RV at the top). But I am not sure that this English ed translates all the Latin comments of the Greek edition.

I wish someone would revise this work; someone who really knows Greek. When I really want to know what a verse or Greek phrase means in the NT, my best bet is till to reach for Alf & ask, "What's it all about, Alfy?"

(EnochBethany (talk) 01:31, 27 August 2011 (UTC))

Bogus Pseudo-Grammatical Rules?
Common English usage misconceptions implies that Alford's Plea either started or spread the pseudo-grammatical rule against "split infinitives." Should the article address Alford's Plea and its effects on usage? 108.45.79.25 (talk) 14:28, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

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