[B-Greek] Using Greek
Alexander Ring
akring at mac.com
Wed Mar 11 17:44:40 EDT 2009
On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Stephen Lord wrote:
> What examples are there of the above, where recourse to Greek
> helps to clarify, correct, or otherwise impact specific texts?
There are many, but I just finished going through Galatians, so these
are fresh on my mind:
Galatians 5:7-8 is:
ETRECETH KALWS. TIS hUMAS ENEKOYEN [THi] ALHQEIAi MH PEIQESQAI; H
PEISMONH OUK EK TOU KALOUNTOS hUMAS.
Then later in v. 10 we read:
EGW PEPOIQA EIS hUMAS...
There is a play on the word PEIQW here that most translations cannot
reproduce; knowing this adds dimension to Paul's argument.
There are a number of times in Romans where Paul uses different forms
of DIKAIOS to make a point about "righteousness", but English often
resorts to a couple different words to translate that one Greek word.
The other place where the Greek helps illuminate is verbal tense.
There are many, many examples of this, but fresh in my mind is
Galatians 5:21 that ends with "...those who live like this will not
inherit the kingdom of God." People will at times read this as Paul
saying "one strike and you're out", but in the Greek it is clear it
means "continue to live like this"; it is present, not aorist.
Alex
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