{"id":15327,"date":"2025-01-18T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15327"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:07:16","slug":"the-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15327\/the-law-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0&#8220;The&#8221; law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I loved\u00a0being in\u00a0the translating\u00a0session\u00a0this morning\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With zero understanding of Greek, this question may be beyond my understanding, but if the article (the) is present in the Greek text, is there a case when it should be excluded?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yes.\u00a0 To make a translation sound right in English\u2014when it will still be a faithful translation\u2014one may either leave off or add a &#8220;the&#8221; to an English sentence.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I assume\u00a0that\u00a0we have to trust that the Greek texts that we have\u00a0are authentic and haven\u2019t been altered?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 We have to start somewhere.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_translation.html\">Going to Jesus.com &#8211; Bible Translations<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comments welcome:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1881040513316557049\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1881040513316557049<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, I loved\u00a0being in\u00a0the translating\u00a0session\u00a0this morning\u2026. With zero understanding of Greek, this question may be beyond my understanding, but if the article (the) is present in the Greek text, is there a case when it should be excluded? ========== Yes.\u00a0 To make a translation sound right in English\u2014when it will still be a faithful translation\u2014one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15329,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327\/revisions\/15329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}