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Wellsofsalvation Posted 9 years ago
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Modifying

What word does this https://moodle.christianleadersinstitute.org/mod/glossary/showentry.php?eid=16&displayformat=dictionary modify?

...if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.

  

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It doesn't modify any word. It is part of a conditional pattern "if X, (then) Y", though in this case the pattern does not (as far as I can tell) have a true conditional meaning, but is used as a device to say, essentially, "X but also Y".

  • It doesn't modify any word.
  • It is part of a conditional pattern "if X, (then) Y", though in this case the pattern does not (as far as I can tell) have a true conditional meaning, but is used as a device to say, essentially, "X but also Y".
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It doesn't modify any word. It is part of a conditional pattern "if X, (then) Y", though in this case the pattern does not (as far as I can tell) have a true conditional meaning, but is used as a device to say, essentially, "X but also Y".

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