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• {"n":"Matthew 6:11","s":"Daily bread. The word translated daily occurs twice in all of Greek literature, both times here.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=matthew-6-11","r":"Matthew 6:11","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every English version reads daily. Footnotes offer bread for tomorrow, or bread necessary for existence. The Latin tradition split, with Jerome rendering the same word supersubstantialem in Matthew and quotidianum in Luke."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"Someone hands you a sentence: **The flimsock was open.** There is no other sentence in English with flimsock in it. You can guess from the shape of the word, you can guess from the context, and that is all you will ever have. That is what a word appearing once looks like."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Epiousios is a dis legomenon, a word occurring exactly twice: Matthew 6:11 and the Lukan parallel at 11:3. A single claimed occurrence outside the New Testament, on a papyrus, is regarded as highly doubtful. There is a strong argument against daily that most readers never meet: every other New Testament passage rendered daily contains the word hemera, day, and this one does not."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"A word with no comparative evidence cannot be translated by comparison. Translators are reduced to breaking it into parts, epi plus a form of einai or of ienai, and the two paths give different answers."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"A word occurring once is a hapax legomenon; twice is a dis legomenon. Either way there are no outside witnesses to check a meaning against. When your Bible's footnote offers two unrelated meanings for one word, that is usually what has happened."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"BDAG lists four live possibilities: necessary for existence, for the current day, for the following day, and for the future. The first takes the word from einai, to be. The last two take it from ienai, to come, which would make it bread for tomorrow asked for today and turn the petition into a request for the provision of the age to come. Daily is the traditional rendering and most scholars now reject it, partly on the hemera argument above."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 epiousios \u00b7 G1967"}],"src":["Origen, On Prayer 27.7, already reports that the word was not in use among the Greeks and appears to have been coined","The Vulgate reads supersubstantialem at Matthew 6:11 and quotidianum at Luke 11:3, the same word rendered two ways by one translator; the older Vetus Latina read quotidianum in both","BDAG lists four possibilities: necessary for existence, for the current day, for the following day, for the future","Every other New Testament passage rendered daily contains hemera, day; this one does not","Foerster's analysis in Kittel, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, 2:590-99","The word is visible in P75, among the oldest surviving witnesses to these passages","The single claimed occurrence outside the New Testament, on a papyrus, is widely regarded as doubtful"]}