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NASB | Romans 8:16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 8:16 The Spirit Himself testifies and confirms together with our spirit [assuring us] that we [believers] are children of God. |
Subject: Five words: see also 1 Cor 14:2 |
Bible Note: Hi Tara1, I am pleased that you are interested and are willing to talk about these things. I'll give you what limitted Greek knowledge I have. My Greek-English Interlinear copies show the word in question as being "auto", Strong's #846, rather than "outos", Strong's #3778. "Autos" can be translated "he, she, or it"; [Himself, herself, itself]. So it would be up to the translator to decide what the context would determine, and a translator would know also the affecting grammar and word endings, etc. For me, I can only go by the context of the passage and the other Scriptures which apply. For me, if one is going to capitalize Spirit as for instance the King James does for John 4:24, "God is a Spirit", then the appropriate pronoun to my mind would be "Spirit Himself" for Romans 8:16. I know that the Spirit can be grieved; that He has a mind and emotions, so I know Him to be a Person. However, I am more open than most perhaps to also see occasions when the Scriptures are talking about a spirit within us that is given by Him and that is not the Person. Romans 8:9 has a "Spirit" in most translations that I now feel should be lower case "spirit". Romans 8:9, "However, you are not in the flesh but in the *spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God/ dwells in you. Romans 8:15, "...but you have received a *spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, 'Abba! Father!/'" The passage of Romans 8:9-16 has five occurances of "spirit" to my mind; these five words can be compared to 1 Corinthians 14:2-16 where five occurances of "spirit" will be found. These to my mind are the "five words" of 1 Cor 14:18,19, "I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all; 19 however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue." From the heart, Ray |