pistis + noun(genitive)

Ethan Metsger ethanm at ccil.org
Sat Feb 24 01:53:43 EST 2001


On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Wayne Leman wrote:

- Ethan said:
- 
- >
- > The AV usually translates the genetive using the preposition "of."  Only
- > one modern translation I can think of uses "faithfulness fo Jesus
- > Christ," and that's the International Standard Version, which hasn't been
- > published yet to my knowledge.
- 
- The NET Bible translates "faithfulness" also. Like the ISV, it is accessible
- on the Internet at:
- 
- http://www.netbible.org

Thanks for the link - I'll do some more research on the subject, and on
the quote you posted.  I assume that translators generally have viable
reasons for translating the way they do, so the comments will provide a
little thought, at the least.

-Ethan Metsger (ethanm at ccil.org) (http://www.ccil.org/~ethanm/)




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