Today’s Word
Functional Equivalence
“and a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:39 ESV Like it – The Greek word homoia is a word about equivalence. It means “of the same kind” or “belonging equally.” It is often used in rabbinic teaching in the phrase, “Who is like?” We need to recognize that…
Prosperity Tests
and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning You’; and ‘On their hands they will bear You up,
so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’” Matthew 4:6 NASB Throw Yourself – Commentaries on the temptations of…
Translating without Reading
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. Exodus 1:21 ESV Families – Here’s the problem. The pronoun expression “them” is lahem. It is the preposition le plus the pronoun hem. But the pronoun here is masculine in spite of the fact that we assume it refers to the midwives. Something doesn’t look…
Four-Part Harmony
“Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 18:19 NASB Agree – What does it mean to agree? Does it mean to think precisely the same way, to mimic each…
The God Paradigm
When God began to create heaven and earth— Genesis 1:1 JPS God – Now don’t get too upset about the JPS translation. It only tries to capture the fact that the opening word, bere’shiyt, does not have a definite article attached (“the” beginning) and therefore must be understood in some other way than an announcement…
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