[B-Greek] Jude 1:7
Sam Lamerson
SLamerson at knoxseminary.edu
Mon May 9 07:36:42 EDT 2011
The problem has to do with TOUTOIS (translated "these angels" in the NET but could be translated simply as "these." The issue is how Jude is interpreting the Gen. 6 narrative. Jude seems to be saying that angels engaged in illicit intercourse with humans. Thus angels lusted after human flesh, and in Sodom the human men lusted after angel flesh.
Because this understanding of Gen. 6 is not popular in some circles, some exegetes have attempted to make TOUTOIS refer to someone or something other than the angels. Most critical commentaries will deal with this issue.
Sam Lamerson
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Subject: [B-Greek] Jude 1:7
Jude 1:7
hWS SODOMA KAI GOMORRA KAI hAI PERI hAUTAS POLEIS TON hOMOION TROPON TOUTOIS EKPORNEUSASAI KAI APELQOUSAI OPISW SARKOS ETERAS PROKEINTAI DEIGMA PUROS AIWNIOU DIKHN hUPEXOUSAI
The NET Bible and Phillips seem at odds on the translation. The others seem like they want to straddle the fence. What is the sense of the Greek?
KJV
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
NET Bible
So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Phillips
Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent cities who, in the same way as these men today, gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion, stand in their punishment as a permanent warning
Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having in like manner to these given themselves over to fornication, and gone away after other kind of flesh, lie exposed as an example, a penalty of age-abiding fire, undergoing.
NIV
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
Roger Hutchinson
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