G4561

• {"n":"John 6:63","s":"The flesh profiteth nothing. Said immediately after a discourse about eating flesh.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-6-63","r":"John 6:63","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads flesh."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He is my own flesh and blood.** **The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.** One English word, two unrelated ideas, and you sort them instantly by context."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Sarx covers meat, the physical body, and a whole orientation of life. Verses 51 to 58 use it in the first sense; verse 63 uses it in the last. The apparent contradiction dissolves once the range is in view and does not dissolve any other way."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English flesh has the same range, so the ambiguity is preserved rather than created. What English cannot do is mark which sense is in play."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a paragraph seems to contradict itself one verse later, check whether the shared word is being used in two of its senses."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Flesh is universal."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03be sarx \u00b7 G4561"}],"src":["sarx in the eating sense: John 6:51-56","sarx as orientation: Romans 8:5-8; Galatians 5:19","The pairing with pneuma in the same verse"]}
• {"n":"sarx","s":"Flesh. Sometimes meat, sometimes the body, sometimes a whole orientation of life.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=sarx","r":"Romans 8:5","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read flesh, sinful nature, or human nature. The NIV used sinful nature for years and reverted to flesh in 2011."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He is my own flesh and blood.** Nothing about meat. English already uses the word for kinship and for weakness, and you never confuse them."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Sarx covers meat, the physical body, human beings generally, kinship, and in Paul a way of living oriented away from God. Which one is meant is decided by context every single time."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English flesh is overwhelmingly physical, so Paul's non-physical use reads as a claim about bodies that he is not making."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"A word with a wide range is decided by context, not by its most common meaning. Reading the most common sense into every occurrence is how a word study goes wrong."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Flesh is the majority rendering and the NIV's return to it in 2011 settled the main modern departure."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c3\u03ac\u03c1\u03be sarx \u00b7 G4561"}],"src":["sarx as meat: 1 Corinthians 15:39","sarx as kinship: Romans 9:3","sarx as orientation: Romans 8:5-8; Galatians 5:19-21"]}