To be honest, I have come to believe that all the standard English translations render a great many of the concepts and presuppositions upon which the books of the New Testament are built largely impenetrable, and that most of them effectively hide (sometimes forcibly) things of absolutely vital significance for understanding how the texts’ authors thought. At times this is a result of the peculiarities of the translators’ linguistic, historical, or conceptual training. More often it is the result of their commitment to one or another specific theological tradition or predisposition. And
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