Msg #24045 You Hath He Quickened

Msg #24045 You Hath He Quickened

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:” (Eph.2:1). Three things I learned twenty years ago when Dr. Decker gave me a C+ in two semesters of Greek: #1 after fifty-seven (57) of the world’s very best linguists assembled and pontificated for seven(7) years over an English translation of holy inspired scripture, never say of it, “A better translation is …”. There is no better English translation (period). #2 when those fifty-seven (57) expert linguists added text in italics, it was quintessential to understanding the original language of the Greek or Hebrew text. And #3 when anybody says “A better translation is …”, or “The italics is not in the original, just leave it out!”, recognized their vile folly, they are dangerous, back away from them slowly. (Number three also applies when someone says, “That is not in the oldest/best manuscripts”… Just back away slowly.)

In Ephesians 2 the Apostle Paul is addressing the method of Gentile salvation and those fifty-seven (57) expert linguists pulled the phrase “hath he quickened” from the Koine Greek of verse 5 and highlighted it in verse 1 because they knew that English readers might not diagram the extended English sentence and get the emphasis on the right si-lu-bul (syllable def. “A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme”).

Three things to learn here: #1 To quicken is “To make alive; to revive or resuscitate, as from death”; #2 In word study (via quicke*) it is used in Psalms 14 times (see 119:25,37,40,50, 88,93,107,149, 154,6,9), and in the NT 11 times, wherein Jesus said “For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will” (John.5:21); and #3 A sentence diagram still helps with Paul’s first seven verses of this chapter.

An Essay for week #45, Nov 10, 2024
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