09-08-2004, 04:06 AM
Not to continue denouncing the peshitta, but there seems to be some obvious mistakes here:
In Matthew 1:20 we read:
"For He who is begotten within her,...."
There is a problem with this. This is announcing what gender the offspring will be when the angel then says after this:
"Now behold, she will bear thee a son,..."
What happened here? This is only seen in the peshitta, in particular, Paul's translation here brought this out. I'm not hammering on Paul with this, I'm looking at the confusion here. Why did the Angel have to announce what gender it was when in the section before that he already said what it was going to be?
Very interesting! But like I said, I only found this here in Paul's translation. Most of the other translations, be it greek, hebrew, old latin, whatever, said something along the lines of this:
"For that which shall be born of her is from The Holy Spirit,..."
This is more accurate, and leads into the next section where the angel then announces the actual gender to be.
There are other sections to look at, but this particular chapter of matthew seems to have a lot of mistakes, at least more than the others so far.
In Matthew 1:20 we read:
"For He who is begotten within her,...."
There is a problem with this. This is announcing what gender the offspring will be when the angel then says after this:
"Now behold, she will bear thee a son,..."
What happened here? This is only seen in the peshitta, in particular, Paul's translation here brought this out. I'm not hammering on Paul with this, I'm looking at the confusion here. Why did the Angel have to announce what gender it was when in the section before that he already said what it was going to be?
Very interesting! But like I said, I only found this here in Paul's translation. Most of the other translations, be it greek, hebrew, old latin, whatever, said something along the lines of this:
"For that which shall be born of her is from The Holy Spirit,..."
This is more accurate, and leads into the next section where the angel then announces the actual gender to be.
There are other sections to look at, but this particular chapter of matthew seems to have a lot of mistakes, at least more than the others so far.