Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is a great way to study. I was told you can only quote so much scripture before being accused of plagiarism. Copyright law doesn’t understand the scripture is God’s message and its earthly ownership is all of ours. So I feel I am forced to paraphrase, and have found out putting things in my own words is a fantastic way to really absorb what’s being said.

     I’ve also found out (more so) that translators paraphrased! And took the liberty to do so, sometimes quite a bit of liberty. In most cases harmless and helpful. But sometimes glaring disbelief shines through.  I use the English Standard Version (ESV) because to me it seems to come up the closest to matching the original words (as far as I can tell using online language tools). And of course they had to paraphrase as well. Even Young’s Literal Version (or other literal versions) are not completely word for word literal, or they would often make little sense to us.

     Psalm 49:5 is an interesting example, the ESV says:

But the biblehub dot com interlinear, reading right to left of course:

Being forced to paraphrase, and following the number links of words I wonder about, the verse makes more sense to me as - Why fear days of evil when wickedness and evil surround? Or - Why fear day/days of evil [ra' - evil, bad, wicked, harmful, unpleasantness] (and) wickedness [avon - iniquity, guilt, punishment, sin] at my heels encircles {“me” may very well be implied? Or is wickedness and evil simply prevalent and a day of evil}. 🤷🏼‍♀️(These study posts on my Facebook page, don’t have tons of followers, lol. Don’t know if anyone at all ever reads them. But, this is my own daily studies, and I have found out that having to more or less put things in my own words, is a great tool to understanding.

     “Why fear days of evil when wickedness and evil surround?” Are prevailing? Whether an individual or a collective days of evil.. why fear? God is on his throne.. Everything progressing toward his perfect blueprint. (But first the culmination of straying/imperfection, this unavoidable, all important contrast ..the dis-ease as part of the cure ..and immunity. “Though” or better, “even if the mountains should fall into the sea, I will not be afraid” Ps.46:2.

07/11 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk.1, Heb.9

𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

          Mark 1:40-45

40 A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, saying, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” 41 Jesus, filled with compassion, reached out and touched him. "I do want to," he answered. "Be clean!"

     42 Instantly the leprosy disappeared, and the man was healed. 43 He sent him on his way, saying 44 "Don't tell anyone about this. Just go and show the priest that you are well. Then take a gift to the temple as Moses commanded, as a public testimony, and everyone will know that you have been healed." 45 But the man went out and talked about it so much and told so many people, openly proclaiming and spreading the news, that Jesus could no longer enter a town in plain view, but stayed out in solitary places. Yet people came to Him from every quarter.                   

           🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

         ~ Hebrews 9:25-28 ~

25 The Jewish high priest went into the Most Holy Place every year to make offering for the people. But Christ did not go in to offer himself many times. 26 Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world! But now He has appeared once for all at the consummation/peak of the ages to do away with sin [hamartia - missing the mark” by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment (next thing they know is “the judgment/aionion (k)correction (kolasin)”. Though a remnant/swathe of mankind are being corrected now and will help/serve, called reigning during the Lord’s long second advent which will consist of the same works - thus called reigning - Jesus did during his first brief advent (Mt.25:1-13). 28 — Word for word interlinear— So also the Christ, once having been offered in order, the many to bear sin for, a second time (coming) apart from sin/missing the mark, will appear (for) the him awaiting for [eis: indicating the point reached or entered, of place, time, purpose, result, for the] salvation [sótéria - well being, deliverance, preservation, salvation, safety].

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

             𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 5:12-16

𝐻𝑒𝒷𝓇𝑒𝓌𝓈 10:1-7

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 6:1-15

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:1-12

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Joel

            🗞️📜

Peter Said - I’m Going Fishing

I grew up a couple of hours away from the ocean. So I love the verses in the New Testament if they mention the seashore.

We’ve all read the account of Jesus in the morning meeting the apostles on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias.

“Tiberias” I think is another name for Galilee (?)

Yes it is, I looked it up - I have Biblehub’s app, so I have the interlinear study tools on my phone. (Hooray!)

The town of Tiberias is on the west side of the lake, so I’m thinking this means they were on the western shore. It likely was the custom, if you were on the western shore, to call it Sea of Tiberias.

So I was reading this - John chapter 21, where Jesus asks apostle Peter “lovest thou me?” (Ye olde englishe is how I first read it, so it's how I always 'hear' it.)

“Do you love me more - “and it’s usually translated as “more than these others?” or just “more than these”.

But today I was reading it in the Contemporary English Version and it said Jesus was asking “do you love me more than these others do?”

I thought, “what..!? ...No way.. that’s just taking it too far” (out there..) So I just had to read it in the interlinear. Well interlinear says the word used means “this”. Could it possibly be “do you love me more than this?” (Peter had said, “I’m a going fishing!” His livelihood and possibly pastime.. spent much of his life on the sea fishing..)

The language! It’s all Greek to me! I’ve tried trying to figure out the different spellings of the word usages.. Is it noun, verb, adjective..? Does it point forward, backward..? (Is there a sideways?)

So I looked up other translations of that version of the word, and I looked up other translations of the verse, and aha! “The Aramaic Bible in Plain English” translates it as, “do you love me more than these things?” So language wise it may not be an outrageous way of thinking about that verse and scene.

(John 21:15) "Do you love Me more than all this?"