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The second death in the Targumim
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--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 on December 05, 2014, 01:04:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: John from Kentucky on December 05, 2014, 12:34:46 PM ---Aramaic is not that important.
The OT quotes of Jesus and the Apostles come primarily from the Greek Septuagint version of the Old Testament.
There are a few chapters of Aramaic in the Hebrew OT, and only a few Aramaic words in the Greek New Testament.
I know you are new here and are easily offended. It is not my intention to offend you.
But true understanding of the Scriptures does not come from an intellectual knowledge of languages.
True understanding comes only from the Spirit of God, as it is written, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord Almighty."
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I agree with what John said. While the matter of translations may be interesting here, it is fraught with peril and not even necessary in this case to understand what the second death is or who it meant for. We have all the scriptural instruction we need to understand God's word but it takes God's spirit to see it and believe it.
The scriptures are not a matter of man's intellectual might (knowledge of languages).
I'll add this witness to John's.
1 Corinthians 2:10 "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God."
1 Corinthians 2:13 "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
1 Corinthians 3:19 "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."
God bless,
Alex
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I wish I did understand Hebrew and Greek-- in another way I’m glad I don’t. You know why? Because if I understood Hebrew and Greek and was a scholar, then it’s like ‘Well the only way you can understand the Bible is if you’re a scholar. Nobody could be a roofer and know these things.’
--L. Ray Smith, Can A Sovereign God Change? May 2008
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