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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011


translates PNEUMATIKWN in v. 1 as "spiritual things" or "spiritual people"
indicates a lack of awareness of the importance of context for meaningful
translation. Or we could say that their goal is not to produce a linguistic,
contextually accurate translation, but a decontextualized lexical
translation. I am hesitant to call this last type of translation an accurate
or faithful translation.

A more accurate and faithful rendering of the intention of Paul is to
translate it already in v. 1 as "spiritual gifts", and most English
translations rightly do so. The same applies to 14:1.

I am not expecting agreement by everyone on these comments, but this is my
perspective, FWIW.

Iver Larsen




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