Comments on: Meme: Translating Colossians 3:1-3

By: Damian

Damian — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:13:12 +0000

TC, I replied over on your blog (at the post you linked to). Thanks for your help – El and I have had discussed the equivalency of translations to originals, and I tend to come on the side that learning the original languages are the way to go.

By: tc robinson

tc robinson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:06:07 +0000

El, I like the freshness of your translation. Hey, Damian, it's not too late to learn NT Greek! Here's a post you might find helpful: Learning to Read NT Greek. If you're serious about learning NT Greek, I'd be glad to point out some helpful tools to you.

By: Damian

Damian — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:33:12 +0000

It’s moments like this I wish I had learnt Greek at university. I check out TC and Bryan’s translations, too, and I must say I’m jealous at all of your skills.

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:44:02 +0000

@TC: thanks for the feedback – it’s always an interesting process to take a fresh look at a passage and imagine it in more contemporary terms.

@Bryan: *blush* you are too kind.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:36:31 +0000

I thought I sent this comment earlier, but apparently my computer ate it.

This is exactly what I tagged you El- with your work on translations, not only just comparison but with literary types of translations, I knew that I could count on you for a great little “translation,” and was looking forward to see what you would do with it.

Great job.

By: tc robinson

tc robinson — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:53:29 +0000

El, thanks for taking on the challenge. I see that you have a translation bone in you.

I like “born again” as a contemporary nuance of the Greek.

“Remember: your sins are dead and buried, and your life has been claimed by Christ for God.” I noticed that have interpreted the traditional “you have died” to a a reference to a person’s sins.

I left out v. 4 because I thought some people would have a hard time working with so many verses. But I’m glad that you guys took it on.

Yeah, you’ve really made this ambiguous. “As Christ is made known” points to the parousia in my opinion because of the qualifying prepositional phrase, “in glory.”