G4972

• {"n":"John 6:27","s":"Him hath God the Father sealed. A commercial and legal word for marking ownership.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-6-27","r":"John 6:27","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read sealed, set his seal on, or placed his seal of approval on."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Stamped and signed.** A stamp says who stands behind this. It does not say the thing is shut."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Sphragizo is to affix a seal: to authenticate a document, to mark goods as owned, to certify. Paul uses it of believers being sealed with the Spirit. The sense is certification, not closure."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English seal kept the closure sense and largely lost the authentication one outside legal language."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When an English word has narrowed to one of two senses, check which sense the ancient world used more. Commercial vocabulary usually survives in papyri."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Most modern versions print set his seal on; the King James reads sealed."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c3\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03af\u03b6\u03c9 sphragizo \u00b7 G4972"}],"src":["sphragizo of believers: 2 Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 1:13; 4:30","Commercial use on goods and documents in the papyri","Revelation 7:3-8 uses it of marking"]}