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NASB | Exodus 33:23 "Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 33:23 "Then I will take away My hand and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen." |
Subject: Exodus 33:11 vs. Ex. 33:1-22? |
Bible Note: Hi Makarios, It is good to talk to you about these things because we both love the NASB and NKJ. The change that you made in your interpretation of the passage is that you determined that Spirit should be capitalized in verse 5. But I have to go with the versions before us and not make that change. I believe that in comparing 1 Corinthians 15:45 with Genesis 2:7 we can see enough difference between a man, Adam, who became a living being and the Man (the last Adam) who became a life-giving spirit. God is Spirit and the idea of "becoming", even though it is not in the Greek but inferred in context, would not be appropriate to my mind. So I'll leave it in the lower case for 1 Cor 15:45. I call to mind John 6:63, "It is the Spirit who gives life." In my personal copy I have penciled in "It is the spirit [sic] who gives life." 1 Corinthians 15:45, "The last **Adam became a life-giving spirit." John 6:63, "It is the spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that **I have spoken to you are spirit and are life." That is my interpretation. It makes for more consistency in the choices. It gives us the idea that the words, the spirit, of the last Adam continues to give life. I call to mind John 3:6 where I have penciled in another lower case "spirit". John 3:6, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the *spirit is spirit." Those are my proposals to you. What do you think? From the heart, Ray |