G2719

• {"n":"John 2:17","s":"The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. The verb is consume, and the tense was changed in the quotation.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-2-17","r":"John 2:17","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads consume or eat up."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"Quote a song lyric back at someone but shift it from **it broke me** to **it will break me**, and you have said something the original did not."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Katesthio is to eat up, devour, consume. The Septuagint of Psalm 69:9 has the aorist, it consumed me. John has the future, it will consume me, which turns a description of past devotion into a prediction."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English can carry the tense, but a reader has to look up the psalm to see that the tense was changed."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Line up a New Testament quotation against its Old Testament source instead of assuming they match. The differences are almost always deliberate and almost never flagged."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Consume is the majority rendering and no version notes the tense change in the text."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03af\u03c9 katesthio \u00b7 G2719"}],"src":["Psalm 69:9, quoted here","Septuagint aorist against John's future","Psalm 69 quoted elsewhere: John 15:25; Romans 15:3"]}