G1659

• {"n":"John 8:32-34","s":"The truth shall make you free. And the next sentence is about slavery, not about employment.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-8-32-34","r":"John 8:32-34","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"The King James reads servant of sin. Modern versions read slave of sin, which keeps the pair intact."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He's free now.** Free from what? The sentence only means something once you know what was holding him."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Eleutheroo, to set free, and doulos, slave, are the two poles of the argument from verse 32 to verse 36. In Greek the reply in verse 33, we were never in bondage, uses the same root, so the whole exchange is one vocabulary."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English servant implies wages and the option of leaving, which removes the force of the contrast with freedom."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a paragraph turns on a contrast, check that both halves are rendered from the same word family. Breaking the family breaks the argument."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Modern versions overwhelmingly read slave here; the King James reads servant."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u03c5\u03b8\u03b5\u03c1\u03cc\u03c9 eleutheroo \u00b7 G1659 \/ \u03b4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 doulos \u00b7 G1401"}],"src":["The word family across John 8:32-36","Romans 6:16-22 runs the same pair","doulos as ownership rather than employment"]}