12-30-2004, 05:44 AM
Shlama Akhi Stephen,
The Western text missed an important word here! Nice find akhi <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> George Lamsa didn't miss out on this. The reason for this is on the front cover of the Lamsa Bible... "Holy Bible from the Ancient Eastern Text"... <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s -->
Even John Gill had an Eastern rendering before him when he wrote in his "Exposition of the Entire Bible"...{QUOTE}.... and the Syriac version reads the last clause, "and in all spiritual understanding"...{END OF QUOTE}
By the way, this [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]Xwrb Lkws[/font]-- (spiritual understanding / discernment) of Ephesians 1:8 (Eastern Text <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> ) gibes really well with the [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]Xwrb Nkrwb[/font]-- (spiritual blessings) of Ephesians 1:3, no? <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: -->
Shlama w'Burkate, Larry Kelsey
The Western text missed an important word here! Nice find akhi <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> George Lamsa didn't miss out on this. The reason for this is on the front cover of the Lamsa Bible... "Holy Bible from the Ancient Eastern Text"... <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink1.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s -->
Even John Gill had an Eastern rendering before him when he wrote in his "Exposition of the Entire Bible"...{QUOTE}.... and the Syriac version reads the last clause, "and in all spiritual understanding"...{END OF QUOTE}
By the way, this [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]Xwrb Lkws[/font]-- (spiritual understanding / discernment) of Ephesians 1:8 (Eastern Text <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> ) gibes really well with the [font=Estrangelo (V1.1)]Xwrb Nkrwb[/font]-- (spiritual blessings) of Ephesians 1:3, no? <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: -->
Shlama w'Burkate, Larry Kelsey