G3341

• {"n":"metanoia","s":"Repentance. The Greek noun is about a change of mind, and the Latin behind the English is about penance.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=metanoia","r":"Mark 1:15","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads repent or repentance. Some footnote change of mind."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**I changed my mind about him.** That is not an apology and it is not a punishment. It is a reversal of judgment, and everything else follows from it."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Metanoia is meta, after or beyond, plus nous, mind. The Vulgate rendered the verb as do penance, which shaped a thousand years of Western practice before Erasmus and the Reformers argued for the mind sense."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English repent carries sorrow and contrition. The Greek noun carries reversal, and sorrow may follow without being the content."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a doctrinal word has a long Latin history, find out what the Latin did to it. A surprising number of English theological terms come through Jerome rather than from Greek directly."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Repent is the majority rendering in every English version. The argument is about what it means, not about how to print it."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1 metanoia \u00b7 G3341"}],"src":["Vulgate paenitentiam agite at Matthew 3:2","Erasmus argued for resipiscite, come to your senses","2 Corinthians 7:10 distinguishes grief from the metanoia it produces"]}