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The Process Of Human Translation (Part 3) Series
Contributed by Ron Freeman, Evangelist on Feb 22, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: To establish that the “word of God” was given to the apostles through divine revelations and recorded by them through divine inspiration. We’ll explore if the truth of God has been preserved during its translation from Greek into our English language.
17. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, by W. E. Vine, Fleming H. Revell Company, Old Tappan, NJ, Copyright, 1981.
18. Smith's Bible Dictionary, William Smith, Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Printing 1884.
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22. The BlueLetterBible.org, (BLB’s) Interlinear, Textus Receptus; and the Morphological GNT, © 2022, by the Blue Letter Bible. This tool allows you to access the Greek New Testament in both manuscripts. http://www.blb.org/The BLB also provides tutorials to help you learn how to use it. Link, (www.BLB.org).
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Author’s Contact Information
Ron Freeman, Evangelist
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Worldwide Ministry Church of Christ.org.TM
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THE PHRASE: “HAVE BEEN TAUGHT”
Attachment to Lesson: Divine Revelation and Inspiration
We have searched other writings of Paul in his Letters to the Saints to determine how he inscribed this phrase in other passages of the scriptures. Here are my findings from that search.
1. In the Text of discovery, we find these words,
First, in Titus, chapter 1, verse 9, he wrote: “Holding fast the faithful word [as he hath been taught], that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers,” Titus 1:9.
2. In three other passages, we find similar words,
Second, in Ephesians 4:21, he penned: “If so, be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.”
Third, in Colossians 2:7, he noted: “Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.”
Fourth, he edited 2 Thessalonians 2:15: “Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.”
3. Similarity of the phrase: “have been taught.”
a. In Titus 1:9, it is translated: “he hath been taught,” G1322, didache, N-ASF [meaning, Noun, Accusative Singular Feminine].
b. In Ephesians 4:21, it is translated: “have been taught,” G1321, didasko, V-API-2P [meaning, Verb, Aorist Passive Indicative - 2nd Person Plural].
c. In Colossians 2:7, it is translated: “ye have been taught,” G1321, didasko, V-API-2P [meaning, Verb, Aorist Passive Indicative - 2nd Person Plural].
d. In 2 Thessalonians 2:15, it's translated: “ye have been taught,” G1321, didasko, V-API-2P, [meaning, Verb, Aorist Passive Indicative - 2nd Person Plural].
