[B-Greek] Acts 4:12b

bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Sat Nov 22 14:56:05 EST 2003


  Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> wrote on
 Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:09:27  
> 
> 
> 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?
  
I don't think I can.
Maybe the word "must" doesn't seem to fit, but it is there.
This probably has to be solves through interpretation rather than translation.
Possibly the sense is; if someone is to be saved, it must be by this one name.
I hope this simple answer is of some help.
Bert de Haan.




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