09-01-2014, 07:17 PM
Quote:I have no problem with translating this phrase as "Bread of Truth", but it's simply a literal translation.
Nor do I, and I think it's rightly translated as such, since it shows in vs 33 and vs 35 (and elsewhere in the passage) where it reads literally, "The Bread of Alaha" and "The Bread of Life" as in later verses. And If we don't go literal in vs 32 "The Bread of Truth" and have it say "The True Bread" or "The Real Bread" instead, then why not have vs 33 and 35 read "The Alaha Bread" or "The Life Bread"?
It makes sense in each case to translate it as it is worded in the Aramaic text, so it's not like it obscures the meaning or anything to give it as it reads in the text. M'shikha is The Truth, and His Body/Bread (as is discussed in the passage) is The Bread of Truth. And that very Body/Bread is given by M'shikha for our spiritual sustenance. The passage makes this clear.
I believe that the Greek version has translated it wrongly here and most other English translation of the Aramaic text has followed suit. Except Herb Jahn's translation, and the translation into English of the Diatessaron's text, and the two English translations by Mrs. Smith and Mr. Burkitt, of the Curetonian and Sinaitic Palimpsest version, where they have "The Bread of Truth".