From: KevLAnder@aol.com
Date: Fri Jan 26 1996 - 03:43:49 EST
In a message dated 96-01-25 13:31:41 EST, Edgar Krenz wrote:
>One
>uses Greek to discover what the translations ought to mean, whether in
>Plato or the NT. You use them to see how others have tried to solve
>difficulties, then go back to the philological tools (lexicon, grammar,
>concordance, parallel passages) to evaluate their solutions and in the
>process deepen your own understanding of the text.
>
>Translations can be an aid, especially if you use many of them. But the
>moment you use one to decide if your own work is correct, you have reversed
>the procedure you should follow.
Well put! I would add that the exhiliration of knowing how to work with Greek
is when you do discover that a particular translation is in some passage (or
even clause!) inferior to the translation that you yourself have come up
with.
Kevin L. Anderson
Concord, CA
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