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NASB | Matthew 16:18 "I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 16:18 "And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades (death) will not overpower it [by preventing the resurrection of the Christ]. [Eph 1:22; 4:15; 5:23; Col 1:18] |
Subject: "upon this rock I will build my church" |
Bible Note: Greeting MJH! I certainly do believe that there are certain instances where a knowledge of Hebrew culture or thought is necessary to understand a particular passage. I recall passages like 'let the dead bury their dead'. Once I found out that Easterners would often use the 'burying of their father' as an excuse not to do something, the passage gained in meaning. However, I don't sense that this is the only point of this group. I think that they actually do believe that you must 'get back' to the Hebrew. I don't accept their approach as an 'effective way' at all. Their resulant text is made up out of thin air. I would not trust it any more than I would trust a paraphrase. :-) I did get the sense from the articles that I read that the New Testament authors, who wrote in Greek, were simply putting Hebrew into a wooden Greek translation. That is why I used the phrase 'incapable of thinking in Greek'. They seem to believe that examining the meaning and structure of the Greek is useless, unless one converts it back into an imagined Hebrew original. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |