G2045

• {"n":"John 5:39","s":"Search the scriptures. The Greek form is both a command and a statement.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-5-39","r":"John 5:39","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"The King James reads search the scriptures as a command. Most modern versions read you search the scriptures as a statement."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**You're reading.** **Read!** In English those look different. Imagine one form that could be either, and only the sentence around it deciding."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Eraunate is identical in form as a present indicative and a present imperative. Read as indicative, the sentence is you search the scriptures because you think you have life in them, and they testify of me, and you will not come to me. That reading fits the rebuke that follows."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English has different forms for a command and a statement, so the printing settles it and the reader never sees the choice."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Some Greek forms are identical across mood. When a version prints a command and another prints a statement, this is usually why."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"The statement reading, you search the scriptures, is what most modern versions print; the King James reads it as a command instead."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f10\u03c1\u03b1\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03c9 eraunao \u00b7 G2045"}],"src":["The identical indicative and imperative forms in the present active second plural","The argument of John 5:39-47 as a rebuke","Metzger and the standard commentaries discuss both readings"]}