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Hebrew and Greek Without Learning Either
A walk through Genesis, the Psalms, and John, plus the key Hebrew and Greek words worth knowing. Each card is a place the English Bibles part company, and what in the Hebrew or Greek made them.
John 16:13
He will shew you things to come. The verb is announce, and the phrase need not mean prediction.
John 16:13, in every translation this tool compares.
What's coming can mean next week or it can mean the thing already on its way down the track.
Because things to come reads as foretelling the future, and the Greek phrase can equally mean the things that are coming, meaning what is about to happen in the events of the passion and after.
Versions read things to come, what is yet to come, or things that are coming.
ἀναγγέλλω anangello · G312
Ta erchomena is a participle, the coming things. Anangello is to announce or report rather than to predict. Together they may point at the events immediately ahead rather than at the future in general.
English things to come defaults to prophecy, so a phrase about imminent events reads as a promise of foresight.
Participles used as nouns are usually about what is happening rather than about a fixed category. The coming things is a description, not a genre.
What is yet to come is what most modern versions print.
- anangello at John 4:25; 16:13-15
- The participle ta erchomena
- The immediate context of John 16:16-22
