Fw: Revelation 3:14 hH ARCH- the Beginning or the Origin,th...

GregStffrd at aol.com GregStffrd at aol.com
Tue May 15 23:37:58 EDT 2001


In a message dated 05/15/2001 2:19:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
babc at ix.netcom.com writes:

<< > Elsewhere in Revelation ARCH always means beginning. There does not
 > seem to be any grammatical or semantic reason for preferring "ruler"
 > over "beginning" in Revelation 3:14.
 
 For what it's worth, I find that NJB has 'Principle' (with a capital P), 
 NAB has 'source,' NRSV has 'origin,' and NET has 'originator.' >>


And many other translations read differently. The question here is what 
grammatical/semantic bases such translations have for their renderings. 

Best regards,

Greg Stafford



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