From: Lynn Trapp (rltrapp@bluebunny.com)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 09:09:01 EDT
Wayne,
Just a question about one of the idioms--"..from faith to faith..." (Romans
1:17). What would you say is a good translation of that into English. The
NIV has attempted by the phrase "...by faith from first to last..." Do you
think this is adequate or is there some other possible English idiom that
would be a closer equivalent.
Thanks in advance,
Lynn Trapp :-)
Access Developer
Wells' Dairy Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Leman [mailto:wleman@mcn.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 12:15 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Cc: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] Idioms
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> Some time ago list member Wieland Willker asked for a list of
> Greek idioms
> which could be used for checking translations. I have been
> working on such a
> list since his request. Following is my current list so far,
> which can also
> be found at my webpage:
>
> http://www.mcn.net/~wleman/ntidioms.htm
>
> The following are literal English translations of the source Greek:
>
> Mt 23:32 Fill up the measure of your fathers!
> Mt 24:12 the love of many will cool
> Mk 2:19 sons of the bridechamber
> Lk 4:25 the heaven was shut for three and a half years
> Lk 9:51 he resolutely set his face to go to Jerusalem
> Lk 10:30 fell among robbers
> Jn 1:16 grace upon grace
> Jn 1:18 The only one, himself God, who is in the bosom of the
> Father, has
> made him known.
> Jn 2:4 what to me and to you? (Hebraism)
> Acts 13:22 a man after my own heart
> Rom 1:17 from faith to faith
> Rom 12:20 you will heap burning coals on his head
> 2 Cor 3:18 from glory to glory
> Eph 1:23 the fullness of him who fills all in all
> 1 Jn 1:6 live in the truth
>
> [Note: the boundary between idioms and other figures of
> speech is not always
> clearcut. See the (http://www.mcn.net/~wleman/ntfigures.htm)
> New Testament
> figures of speech page for examples, some of which may act
> more as idioms.]
>
> Wayne
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