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NASB | Romans 9:23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 9:23 And what if He has done so to make known the riches of His glory to the objects of His mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory, |
Bible Question:
I have no idea what an "apodosis clause" is. If I begin that sentence with "But if...", instead of "What if...", it still retains it's hypothetical quality in the english. It doesn't close the question. The only problem is that it makes the grammar screwy in the english. But that's fixable by saying, "But what if...". But none of this speaks to my question. The question is open in every english translation of the Bible that I've seen. "And He did so" closes the quesion. I have not seen any comprehensible reason to close that question. Give me another example out of the Bible of a question that left a piece out so that we had to stick the answer in ourselves. Ourselves being the translators, not the readers. Seriously, doctrine is at stake. All of the debates about whether the Bible is full of mistakes are silly because the manuscript inconsistencies never truly interfere with actual doctrine. I'm not convinced. If I'm just too uneducated to tell that you really did prove the thing to be correct, then the problem still exists. Few are educated enough to know why all the other Bibles say one thing and this one says something else. Whitewave |
Bible Answer: Greetings Whitewave! Sorry about that! The 'apodosis' is the clause containing the statement based on the supposiiton in the 'protasis' or 'if' clause. In this particular passage, we have a 'protasis', but no 'apodosis'. A full example of this would be Rom. 3:5: Protasis: "But if our unrighteousness brings out God?s righteousness more clearly," Apodosis: "...what shall we say?" The reason that Rom. 9:22-26 is difficult is because Paul never finishes his statement. I'm not trying to say that there is a definite answer. I'm just saying that the way the NASB translates it is one possible answer. :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |