[B-Greek] Translation of Romans 9:6
Dan Starcevich
dan.star at comcast.net
Sun Oct 31 10:42:58 EST 2004
If you are trying to stay close to the order of the original wording I would
suggest:
But by no means has the word of God failed.
It seems to me that the OUC hOIN has been put at the front of the sentence
in order to emphasize the impossibility of the failure of God's word.
If you are looking for a paraphrase of the clause, I think Peterson's
Message is a good model:
Don't suppose for a moment, though, that God's Word has malfunctioned in
some way or other
Note how he keeps the word order in place to emphasize the fact that Paul is
making an emphatic objection to the possibility that God's word has failed.
God Bless
Dan Starcevich
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Subject: [B-Greek] Translation of Romans 9:6
The first part of Romans 9:6 reads, "OUC hOIN DE hOTI EKPEPTWKEN hO LOGOS
TOU QEOU."
I can see a few different ways to translate that:
"But it is not as if the word of God has failed."
Or
"But that the word of God has failed is not so."
Yet both of those translations seem coldly logical, lacking the passion of
the passage. Would a translation like this one be acceptable?
"But that the word of God has failed . . . by no means!"
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Lincoln Mullen
Student, Bob Jones Univ. (SC)
Groton, Massachusetts
lmullen at bju.edu
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