Verses which need to be read in the Grk

Nichael Lynn Cramer nichael at sover.net
Thu Dec 31 08:38:19 EST 1998


Jim West wrote:
>At 05:06 PM 12/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>For a course I will be teaching this winter I am looking for suggestions of
>>verses which truly lose a lot in the translation, verses which show the
value
>>of being able to read the New Testament in Greek.  Please suggest a verse or
>>two and explain why it needs to be read in the Greek.  Thank you for your
>>help.
>
>Mt 1:1- Rev 22:21
>I am not being facetious either.  Every verse is made more cogent when one
>reads it in Greek (for after all, that was the language in which they were
>composed).

Jim makes a good point, of course (and I must admit to having similar
thought when I first saw the original request).

However, I also think that the question raises a very valuable point.  One
or two specific, concrete, well thought-out examples which Jason could
present to his class would go a very long way towards making Jim's point.


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Nichael Cramer
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