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NASB | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
Bible Question: Why has the word BEGOTTEN been thrown out of The NIV,the New Living Translation,English standard version(ESV), Contemporary English and worldwide ENGLISH (NEW TESTAMENT)(we) version Bibles as a fabrication? |
Bible Answer: Hello, Isaac. Here's a note on 'begotten' that you may find to be of help and interest. It is quoted from the translators' "Word Studies" footnote to the Holman Christian Standard Bible: "English translations have traditionally understood monogenes to be from monos (only) and gennao (beget), thus following the Latin Vulgate (unigenitus) and translating the word 'only begotten.' This has caused great misunderstanding since God the Son did not have an origin and was not created by God. He is Himself an eternal being. It is best to understand monogenes to be from monos (only) and genos (kind, Latin genus), meaning the only one of its kind. This view is more consistent with John's five uses of the word, and support for this translation is found in Hebrews 11:17 where Isaac is called Abraham's monogenes. Isaac was not Abraham's only-begotten son (Ishmael was his firstborn and there were other sons through Keturah), but Isaac was the only one of his kind -- the son of promise. In the Old Latin translation, monogenes was translated as unicus, from which we get our word unique. This is what is meant by monogenes in John's writings (John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; 1 John 4:9) Jesus is God's only Son in that His essential nature is the same as the Father's. There are many children of God (see John 1:12,13), but there is only one Son of God." --Hank |