Tag: translated
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Could Matthew 28:18-19 be translated in the Koine Greek to be an exhortation and not a commandment as some may think?
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” Could this mean, ”while you are going out and about or while you are on your way do these things”, or ”while y…
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How should the Hebrew ‘ehyeh asher ehyeh’ in Exodus 3:14 be translated in English and what does it mean?
God instructed Moses to say “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14 New International Version). The phrase translated “I am who I am” in Hebrew is ehyeh asher ehyeh. The word e…
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On First Principles, By Origen (edited And Translated By John Behr)
144 book reviews Origen (edited and translated by John Behr),On First Principles. 2 Vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). 664 pp. $220.00 hardback. In…
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Sergius Bulgakov, Jacob’s Ladder On Angels, Translated By Thomas Allan Smith (Grand Rapids MI Cambridge UK William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010). Xiv + 169 Pp., ISBN 978 0 8028 6516
116 Book Reviews / Pneuma 35 (2013) 87-156 Sergius Bulgakov, Jacob’s Ladder: on Angels , translated by Thomas Allan Smith (Grand Rap- ids MI/Cambridge…
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Why is Jude 1:5 translated ‘Jesus’ instead of ‘Joshua’?
Jude 1:5 has major textual variants. One reads "Ὑπομνῆσαι δὲ ὑμᾶς βούλομαι, εἰδότας ὑμᾶς ἅπαξ πάντα, ὅτι Ἰησοῦς λαὸν ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου σώσας τὸ δεύτερον τοὺς μὴ πιστεύσαντας ἀπώλεσεν" Why is Ἰησοῦς translated as ‘Jesus’ instead of …..
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In John 1:1c, should the Greek word θεὸς be translated into English as “a god” or “God”?
The New World Translation, the official Bible version of the Watchtower/Jehovah’s Witnesses, translates John 1:1 into English as follows: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. NWT, 2013 T…
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Would ἀγάπη in 1 Cor. 13 be better translated חֶסֶד in Hebrew translations rather than אַהֲבָה?
I hope we can tolerate a translation question into another language besides English, especially since some people here know Hebrew. It is even the 1st language for some here. אַהֲבָה is the most common word for love in Hebrew, but it also…