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Yes, I am totally getting to Ovid! But I felt like doing some Greek while I was out, so I tackled a bit of Acts next. Koine is weird. I don't mean that in a judgmental sort of way--all dialects are equally valid!--but it's very, mm, chatty? Lots of prepositions that don't feel necessary to me, which lead me down rabbit trails as I try to work out the specific meaning they want to use when it's really just the sort of thing I'd expect a dative on its own for. Slightly odd syntax. Simple, repetitive vocabulary. Such is. Anyway, have a few verses:
(1.1) I made my first account about all the things, Theophilus, which Jesus began to do and teach (1.2) until the day he, commanding the apostles he chose for himself by means of the holy spirit, was taken up; (1.3) the ones to whom he presented himself alive after his suffering, with many sure signs, being seen by them for forty days, and saying things about the kingdom of God.
(1.4) And when he was eating bread at the table* with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but await the command of the father, which you heard from me; (1.5) that John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in a holy spirit after not many days."
(1.6) So when they got together they asked him, saying, "Lord, are you re-establishing the kingdom for Israel?"
(1.7) He said to them, "You do not know the times or moments which the father established in his private authority, (1.8) but you will receive power when the holy spirit comes up you, and you will be witnesses of me in Jerusalem and in all of Judea and Samaria and up to the farthest part of the land." (1.9) And having said these things, while they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him away from their eyes.
(1.10) And as they were staring into the [part of the] sky of his removal, and behold! two men stood near them in white clothing, (1.11) who said, "Galilean men, why do you stand around looking into the sky? This Jesus, the one taken up from you into the sky, will return thus in the same manner you saw him carried into the sky."
(1.12) Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olive-Yard, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath-day's journey away. (1.13) And they went inside, up into the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas son of James. (1.14) All these men were faithful, in one accord, with prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.
(* This is a remarkably...specific...verb. Which is given that exact definition only for its appearance in Acts. As I have not studied Koine ever, I will trust the dictionary on this one; if you want a more Attic definition, try "gathering them together".)
(1.1) I made my first account about all the things, Theophilus, which Jesus began to do and teach (1.2) until the day he, commanding the apostles he chose for himself by means of the holy spirit, was taken up; (1.3) the ones to whom he presented himself alive after his suffering, with many sure signs, being seen by them for forty days, and saying things about the kingdom of God.
(1.4) And when he was eating bread at the table* with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but await the command of the father, which you heard from me; (1.5) that John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in a holy spirit after not many days."
(1.6) So when they got together they asked him, saying, "Lord, are you re-establishing the kingdom for Israel?"
(1.7) He said to them, "You do not know the times or moments which the father established in his private authority, (1.8) but you will receive power when the holy spirit comes up you, and you will be witnesses of me in Jerusalem and in all of Judea and Samaria and up to the farthest part of the land." (1.9) And having said these things, while they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him away from their eyes.
(1.10) And as they were staring into the [part of the] sky of his removal, and behold! two men stood near them in white clothing, (1.11) who said, "Galilean men, why do you stand around looking into the sky? This Jesus, the one taken up from you into the sky, will return thus in the same manner you saw him carried into the sky."
(1.12) Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olive-Yard, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath-day's journey away. (1.13) And they went inside, up into the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas son of James. (1.14) All these men were faithful, in one accord, with prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.
(* This is a remarkably...specific...verb. Which is given that exact definition only for its appearance in Acts. As I have not studied Koine ever, I will trust the dictionary on this one; if you want a more Attic definition, try "gathering them together".)