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Translating can be hard, especially when dealing with old dead languages. Just look at all thus different English text for John 14:2 http://biblehub.com/john/14
by runarb 13y ago
Translating can be hard, especially when dealing with old dead languages. Just look at all thus different English text for John 14:2 http://biblehub.com/john/14-2.htm http://biblehub.com/john/14-2.htm .
"My Father's house has many rooms" and "There is more than enough room in my Father's home" may not mean the same at all, especially when taken out of its original context.
- auctiontheory 13y agoAt one level, translation is literally "impossible." Books are written for people who speak a common language, and have a common cultural context. No matter how "accurately" the individual words (or broader meanings, which is different) are translated, there just isn't a 1:1 mapping to another culture, place, and time.