Wednesday, March 31, 2010

All the words

In a Desiring God blog post from last year, John Piper gives a stirring endorsement of the English Standard Version (ESV) and a stinging reproach to the TNIV for leaving out a word (see below) on which he is "building a whole sermon".
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1963_get_a_bible_with_all_the_words/

As I was studying the word authority in the gospel of John, I discovered (to my dismay) that the ESV had inserted it several times- where the Greek simply says "on my own" (emautou) with not even a hint of "authority" (exousia). Ouch!

I guess Piper is human after all. I feel silly for having enjoyed his polemic on this point, and will strive to be less polemic myself- but not emautou!

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  1. AthansorJune 19, 2010 at 10:14 AM

    Inserting "authority" makes sense, though. I'm not trying to defend Piper, but absence of causal conjunctions is a bigger deal to me than adding "authority" to "on my own."
    Well, I suppose I'd also have to see the instances you're talking about :) (I wonder from whom I get this polemically-prone disposition!)

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