Quoting from still another Greek authority, that of Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament, by Samuel G. Green, D.D. (Revision of 1912 edition), on pages 248, 249, under katá, it says: “β. With the Accusative. . . . 4. Of place or time, distributively, from one to another. Mark xiii.8: seismoì katà tópous, earthquakes in diverse places. Luke viii.1: diódeue katà pólin, he was journeying from city to city. So kat’ étos year by year, Luke ii.41; kat’ oíkon, at different houses, Acts ii.46, v. 42; katà pan sábbaton, every Sabbath, Acts xv.21;” and so forth.

 

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  August 15, 1961 p. 503

 

Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament Part 1

Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament Part 2

Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament Part 3

All the facts proved that Jehovah’s faithful servants under the rule of Rome were “a set of men of the most harmless, inoffensive character, who never harboured in their minds a wish or thought inimical to the welfare of the state”.¹⁸

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1951 p. 140

 

18.  Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity, by John Laurence von Mosheim, translated from the German by Robert S. Vidal and edited by James Murdock, 1853, vol. 1, pp. 129, 130.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.  March 1, 1951 p. 140

 

The eminent historian, J. L. von Mosheim warns against such demonic impersonators. “Let us beware,” he says, “lest by too eager defence of the miracles told us by the ancients in their age, we should do injustice to the majesty of God, and to the most holy religion which teaches us to subdue ourselves, not our enemies.”—Mosheim’s Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity, Murdock’s trans., 1853, vol. 2, p. 478.

The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.   August 1, 1951 p. 475-476

 

Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity Volume 1

 

Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity Volume 2