From: Polycarp66@aol.com
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 23:29:14 EST
In a message dated 12/20/99 7:52:27 PM Central Daylight Time, grant@cajun.net
writes:
<< While reading the chapter of Philippians 2, I noticed that verse 6
varies significantly from translation to translation.
KJV for example reads: "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God."
WE: "He was in every way like God. Yet he did not think that being equal to
God was something he must hold on to. "
YLT "who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to
God, "
NIV reads, "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with
God something to be grasped,"
Darby "who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of
rapine to be on an equality with God; "
NASB "who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality
with God a thing to be grasped
"hOS EN MORFH QEOU hYPARCHON OUCH hARPAGMON hHGHSATO TO EINAI ISA QEO."
It seems that two interpretations result.
On one hand, Jesus does not attempt equality." This seems to agree with
opponents of the Trinity.
Yet, on the other hand, KJV's translation and others shows Jesus as not
considering his equality as robbery or that his equality was wrong.
Which of the two translations agrees more with what the bible writer
intended?
>>
It would seem obvious that it is necessary to take the sentence as a whole.
It would be impossible to come to any understanding of the meaning of OUCH
hARPAGMON hHGHSATO TO EINAI ISA QEO apart from verses 7 & 8. I would
translate thusly
Philippians 2
5 Have this attitude in yourself which was also in Christ Jesus
6 who while existing in the form of God did not deem being equal to God a
thing to be grasped
7 but divested himself taking the form of a servant, becoming in the likeness
of man, being found in the form of a man,
8 he humbled himself becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
In light of the statement that he divested himself, it could hardly be taken
as a statement that he did not attempt equality.
gfsomsel
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