A Handbook on Paul's Letter to the Romans
Overview
What if you were responsible for translating God's Word into a language that never had a Bible before? Can you imagine the burden you would feel to do a good job?
God takes His Word pretty seriously, and you would certainly do everything in your power to make sure that you were not putting words into God's mouth, but that you were providing a text that clearly communicated God's Word as closely to the original as possible.
This challenge to understand the heart of the original Scriptures, in order to put the original text into a new language, was the impetus for the United Bible Societies to create handbooks for Bible translators working on this very thing. The United Bible Societies' Handbook Series is a comprehensive verse-by-verse guide to understanding exactly what is being communicated by the author in the original Scriptures.
Key Features
- Exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text
- Verse-by-verse guides
- An essential tool for Bible translators
Top Highlights
“Paul is making a contrast between the life of the man dominated by his human nature and the life of the believer under the control of God’s Spirit.” (Page 144)
“Paul is simply saying that the way in which one lives is determined by that on which one focuses one’s thoughts.” (Page 148)
“Paul uses, conform outwardly and transform … inwardly.” (Page 234)
“Righteousness is best understood in the sense of ‘God’s putting men right with himself,’ which is understood as the beginning point and eternal life as the final point of the salvation experience. The meaning, then, is that God’s grace rules us by putting us into a right relation with him and by leading us to eternal life (see verse 6:22) through Jesus Christ our Lord. The phrase through Jesus Christ our Lord must be connected in meaning both with the matter of putting men right with God and of leading them to eternal life.” (Page 110)
“How God puts men right with himself represents the Greek phrase ‘the righteousness of God.’ In this context, however, ‘the righteousness of God’ does not refer to God’s own righteous character, but to his saving activity whereby he puts men in the right (as a judge declares a man innocent), or whereby he puts men in a right relationship to himself.” (Page 20)
Product Details
- Title: A Handbook on Paul's Letter to the Romans
- Authors: E. A. Nida, B. M. Newman
- Series: The United Bible Societies' Handbook Series (UBSHS)
- Publisher: United Bible Societies
- Pages: 317