12-31-2008, 10:33 PM
Shlama Brantana, <!-- s
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You know... it's rather striking that the KJV translated the Greek 'eis' to the word 'for' here. Someone might correct me here but it's the only instance I know of. Besides, what's wrong with the concept of all things being created BY Him and THROUGH Him. "Through Him" just implies, as far as I can tell, that the Father and the Holy Spirit weren't just taking a nap while all of this creation work was going on. A couple of commentaries I referred to consider the 'for' translated from the Greek text to mean 'for His purpose.' I wonder if our good friend Zorba did this to avoid double-talk since 'dia' means 'by' and 'through.' That wouldn't look very good. <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: --> So much for "Colossians from the original Greek"...huh? <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/laugh.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laugh" /><!-- s:lol: -->
Shlama w'Burkate, Larry Kelsey
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> You know... it's rather striking that the KJV translated the Greek 'eis' to the word 'for' here. Someone might correct me here but it's the only instance I know of. Besides, what's wrong with the concept of all things being created BY Him and THROUGH Him. "Through Him" just implies, as far as I can tell, that the Father and the Holy Spirit weren't just taking a nap while all of this creation work was going on. A couple of commentaries I referred to consider the 'for' translated from the Greek text to mean 'for His purpose.' I wonder if our good friend Zorba did this to avoid double-talk since 'dia' means 'by' and 'through.' That wouldn't look very good. <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: --> So much for "Colossians from the original Greek"...huh? <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/laugh.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laugh" /><!-- s:lol: -->
Shlama w'Burkate, Larry Kelsey