Hyperbole in Acts 10.15 and 11.9?
In the accounts of Peter’s vision of a sheet full of animals descending from the sky in Acts 10.9-16 and 11.5-10, a voice comes to him that is usually translated, “What God has made clean, you must not consider defiled,” or with words very similar to these. In fact, there is probably a kind of hyper...
| Published in: | The Bible translator |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2013
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| In: |
The Bible translator
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 232-239 |
| Further subjects: | B
Acts 10
B Acts 11 B unclean B Hyperbole B Joppa B Peter B defile B Food |
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| Summary: | In the accounts of Peter’s vision of a sheet full of animals descending from the sky in Acts 10.9-16 and 11.5-10, a voice comes to him that is usually translated, “What God has made clean, you must not consider defiled,” or with words very similar to these. In fact, there is probably a kind of hyperbole in the second clause, and in a translation that seeks to represent the Greek closely it is much better to translate, “What God has made clean, you must not defile!” |
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| ISSN: | 2051-6789 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Bible translator
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2051677013507211 |