[B-Greek] Acts 4:12b

Doug Hoxworth dhoxworth at charter.net
Fri Nov 21 18:21:26 EST 2003


i found the cotton patch translation interesting (though 
not a translation but paraphrase):

And the answer lies in him alone, for there isn't another 
person in the whole world who can rescue us.

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:09:27 -0800 (PST)
  Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>OUDE GAR ONOMA ESTIN hETERON hUPO TON OURANON TO
>DEDOMENON EN ANQRWPOIS EN hWi DEI SWQHNAI hHMAS
>
>I cannot find a good English translation for this
>passage, even the NET Bible has...
>
>"for there is no other name under heaven given among
>people by which we must be saved."
>
>The word "must" doesn't seem to fit well. The Greek
>idea is, I think, "there is no other name...by which
>it is [even] possible to be saved." (I threw in that
>"even" for emphasis.)
>
>Can someone give me a better English translation of
>this?



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