[B-Greek] Question about John 10:18

Hugh Donohoe Jr. justusjcmylord at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 31 22:25:57 EST 2008


Matthew,

Tomato Tomato

Your literal translation puts the accusative "this
commandment" in its natural place in English, after
the verb.

The NIV translation replicates the Greek word order in
what is still natural English idiom. 

Both are correct. The NIV with a formal equivalence
philosophy ironically is more literal here (if you
count replicating word order as more literal). I guess
the NIV captures the emphasis of the demonstrative
pronoun and its first position in the sentence. If
John intended such emphasis.

ex animo

Hugh Donohoe


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