[B-Greek] Gal. 1:7 and METASTREFW

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue Aug 26 12:48:48 EDT 2003


At 16:49 26/08/2003, Eric Weiss wrote:

>as opposed to merely "distort" the Gospel (the NASB translation of 
>METASTREYAI here)?

Well, both RSV and NRSV go further, using > pervert the gospel of Christ <
and this is in line with the BAGD citation and translation of Ga. 1:7 
as >>  change or distort the gospel of Christ Gal 1:7 <<

The very useful "Handbook for Translators" series produced by the UBS [ the 
Galatians volume is by Arichea, D. C., & Nida, E. A. (1993)] has this note 
on Ga. 1:7

 >> Trying to change the gospel of Christ is literally ""want to pervert 
the gospel of Christ." This indicates that the Galatians have not yet fully 
succumbed to the influence of the Judaising missionaries. The Greek word 
for to change is in itself neutral, and simply means to change from one 
thing into another, or from one state to another, or to an opposite state, 
but in this context it means to change for the worse (RSV to pervert,NEB to 
distort). <<


Regards

Maurice



Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
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