Another question, is translating the KJV to another language by a person who knows nothing
about Greek and Hebrew okay?
Or does a Bible version in any language have to be from the originals?
I would say that if, you know, if that's all they've got in that language, if a language
doesn't have a Bible, and some guy translates it from English, well, great, that's better
than nothing.
But in a perfect world, you should translate from the Hebrew and the Greek.
But if all you've got is a translation from Spanish or a translation from English, well,
hey, that's, that's a good start, that's a start.
You know, like, like, just like Wycliffe kind of got a, you know, a start by translating
the Latin Vulgate into English, at least he's getting something into English.
But you know, you really want to do like Tyndale and go back to the Greek and Hebrew and, and,
and go to the original languages.
So you guys have any thoughts on those?
Yeah, I agree, I, and I think we touched on that too, with the idioms and the dynamic
equivalence.
And that's why you'd want to go back to the Greek and Hebrew because, you know, you want
to make sure you're not, you know, taking it, you know, it's basically you're not gonna,
you're gonna have the clear source from the very beginning going into the other language.
So like sometimes, sometimes the Spanish is more word for word like the Greek, just because
Spanish and Greek are closer together than, than English and Greek as languages.
So it wouldn't really make any sense to go from Greek to English to Spanish.
It'd make a, it'd be a lot easier and you could be even more accurate by just translating
directly from Greek to Spanish, cut out the middleman, because English is going to take
it a little bit further away, idiomatically, you're still going to get the same meanings,
but you'd rather, you know, go straight from, from Greek.
You know, like, for example, here's a perfect example, you know, Jesus walking on the water
and in the, in the Greek, they thought that he was a phandasma, okay, which the, the King
James says they thought that it was a spirit, okay.
So a phandasma, but in, in Spanish, you actually have the word phantasma and, and the word
phantasma means the exact same thing as the Greek word phandasma.
So what would be better if you were translating into Spanish, you could say they thought he
was an espiritu, if you were translating from English into Spanish, you'd say they thought
it was an espiritu.
But if you were translating directly from Greek into Spanish, you'd say they thought
it was a phantasma.
And which one's better, obviously, which one's more right on in Spanish would be to come
straight from Greek into Spanish.
So it's literally the exact same word, but, but the ruckmanites would be like, no, it
needs to say espiritu.
Even though spirit and ghost mean the same thing, because phantasma is ghost in Spanish,
but it's the scary kind of ghost.
In Acts 21, 38, you have, you know, they're talking to Paul, and they're basically saying
how he was with the 4000 men in the wilderness who were murderers.
In Greek, it says sicario.
And in Spanish, it actually translates exactly the same as sicario.
And even, you know, today, that's the word they use for like an assassin, or something
like that, you know, so they didn't even change it at all.
But I mean, we wouldn't we don't have a word like that.
It's similar to Greek.
So we just, you know, the, the King James is translated as murders, which is exactly
what it is.
But we don't have a word like that stems from sicario like I don't know of an English word
that means like sicario that means like an assassin or murderer.