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Take my yoke
Dave in Tenn:
Rolihlahla, first--thanks for reminding me of that translation (JMNT). I'd encountered it before, but didn't follow through. I've got it now in .pdf form and am looking forward to using it carefully. It's in large part what I try to do myself in study with my own limited tools (bible dictionaries, concordances especially) to get to a more nuanced and "colored" understanding apart from theology.
Second, I want to be clear. The KJV translators did not "insert" the word "easy". They translated a Greek word that is in the text "easy". The English language changes, however, and our modern conception of "easy" doesn't any longer seem to be a particularly "good" translation. That said, there likely IS no absolutely accurate translation using a single word. It seems to be a fairly "broad" word, which makes sense if we remember that even in English, words that describe states-of-being are usually not precise in every way.
Fortunately, there are not many other uses of the Greek word in the NT. Just using the KJV, here they are:
G5543
χρηστός
chrēstos
Total KJV Occurrences: 7
kind, 2 Luk_6:35, Eph_4:32
better, 1 Luk_5:39
easy, 1 Mat_11:30
good, 1 1Co_15:33
goodness, 1 Rom_2:4
gracious, 1 1Pe_2:3
I'll leave you to look those up if you've a mind to, but doing so may help 1. see the breadth of the word itself, and 2. See some comparisons of its usage so that you're not forced to choose a single narrow definition, but get a better sense of what that one Greek word means/implies.
Even so, Scripture does not contradict itself. It ALWAYS takes the spirit of God to compare spiritual with spiritual.
Wanda:
Rolihlahla and Dave, thanks for the insightful share.
--- Quote ---Can I suggest a different way of looking at this (especially considering all of these)? It's not OUR YOKE to begin with, nor are we told that OUR BURDEN is light. It is HIS YOKE and HIS BURDEN.
--- End quote ---
As usual Dave, you always inspire a different way of looking at something. It reminds me of Rays teaching that being saved is the hardest thing we will ever experience. There is truly nothing easy about this process.
Nelson Boils:
Exo 6:6 Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from under the YOKE of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments.
Wanda:
Galatians 5: (NIV)
5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Musterseed:
Matt 23:4
They tie up heavy burdensome loads ,and lay them on men’s shoulders, but
they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the fast that I choose ,to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke.
Matt 18:6
But whosoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Millstone,,,, Oxford AWT
Burden, dead weight , cross to bear,load, duty
Each of two circular stones used for grinding grain.
A heavy and inescapable responsibility.
Ray had said about this scripture that tying a millstone around the neck and throwing into the sea
is the equivalent of killing a mosquito with a baseball bat.😲
Matt 18:10
See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven, their
angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Gal.6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
I followed up on the word easy as in MY yoke is easy and it led me to the word breeze.
A gentle wind.
In Christ Pamela 💕
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