G5565

• {"n":"John 15:5","s":"Without me ye can do nothing. The preposition is closer to apart from.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-15-5","r":"John 15:5","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"The King James reads without me. Modern versions read apart from me."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Without a coat.** **Apart from the tree.** The first is missing something. The second is detached from it."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Choris means separated from, apart from. In a passage about branches being cut off, the spatial sense is doing the work, and without flattens it to lacking."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English without covers both absence and separation and defaults to absence."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"In a passage built on one image, prepositions usually belong to the image. Read them spatially first."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Apart from me is how most modern versions read it; without me is the King James."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03c7\u03c9\u03c1\u03af\u03c2 choris \u00b7 G5565"}],"src":["choris at Hebrews 4:15; 9:22","The branch imagery at John 15:2-6","Compare aneu, without, which John does not use here"]}