The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 278

VIII.

After the Scripture. " In the day that

In the preceding pages

God

created man,

in the likeness of

God

He him." — Gen.

i.

we have shown

v.

created

that the translation,

" in

Our image," actually means, after Our image." To make anything an image is no language; it is unthinkable, logically untrue. We now proceed to show how it should be translated, and give our "

in

reason for

it.

We

begin with citing some passages from the Old Testament in which occurs the preposition " B " which, in Gen. i. 27, stands before image, where it can not be translated " in," but requires a prep-

comparison such as " like " or " after." Isa. xlviii. 10 reads: " Behold I have refined thee, but not with Here the silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction." preposition " B " stands before silver, as in Gen. i. 27 before image. osition of

It is

obvious that

ver." silver.

it

can not be translated

"

in silver," but

"

as

sil-

Surely the Lord would not cast the Jews in a pot of melted The preposition is one of comparison as in i Peter i. 17 the ;

refining of Israel is

translated

;

" I

compared

to that of a noble metal.

It

may

be

have refined thee, but not according to the nature of

silver"; or simply: "as silver."

Psalm

cii.

reads

" :

My

days are consumed like smoke, and

Hebrew

bones are burned as an hearth." tion " B " occurs before smoke, and almost In the

"

all

the

my

same preposi-

exegetes translate

it,

as smoke."

Take hold of shield and buckler and in my help" makes no sense. stand up for mine than this " Stand up so translation other allows no The thought as my nelp"; or. as the "Stand up help;" or, be my that Thou Authorized Version has it: " Stand n^/or my help." We find the same result in Lev. xvii. 11:" The life of the flesh Again, Psalm xxxv.

2

help."

reads "

:

"

Stand up

:

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