[B-Greek] Acts 4:12b
Barbara D. Colt
babc2 at comcast.net
Sat Nov 22 21:17:48 EST 2003
On 22 Nov 2003 at 16:16, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/22/2003 2:57:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca writes:
> >
> > OUDE GAR ONOMA ESTIN hETERON hUPO TON OURANON TO
> > DEDOMENON EN ANQRWPOIS EN hWi DEI SWQHNAI hHMAS
> >
> > 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.)
> >
(snip)
> 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. Wallace notes
>
(snip)
>
> Perhaps "whereby one might be saved" would be appropriate.
>
If one might, one also might not. If one is going to do it at all,
this is the way one must do it. That type of sentence always seems
odd if one peers too closely at the details, but it seems to me that
the NET translation is easily enough understood.The King James
differs only in having 'men' instead of 'people,' and I don't
remember ever having any confusion about the meaning even in my
childhood when I first heard it.
Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at comcast.net
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco
>From envy, hatred, and malice and all uncharitableness
Good Lord, deliver us.
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