The mystery
of John 1:1
These 70 Bibles Read: and
the word was god, a god –a God –Godlike-Divine or something else.
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(1)
of 70--The Emphatic Diaglot,--In a beginning was the word, and the word was with the
God,
and a
god was the Word.
Benjamin Wilson, 1865--- Publisher -Fowler
Wells & Co, >
See BenjaminWilson1864-- SBT Prints
The Facts That Matters.
Benjamin Wilson has three different
ending.
a god –a God –Godlike-Divine or something else.
(2) Edward Harwood,
"Before the origin of this world existed
the LOGOS who was then with the Supreme God
An Attempt to translate the Sacred
with which
other English Translations from the Greek
Critical and Explanatory---
liberal+translation+of+the+new+testament#PPA281,M1--actual
book
adoremus.org/0607Translations.html & bible-researcher.com/versbib8.html
(3) Newcome's version (1796), , and the Word was God.
In 1808 Thomas Belsham and a Unitarian committee revised Newcome's translation
after his death in 1800.
Belsham's Revised
NT was published in
This “Improved”
version of the New Testament was a revision of Newcome's version (1796), ....
It is indeed highly
improbable that no notice should have been taken of these .....
No biblical scholar
can deny the great superiority of Archbishop Newcome's ......
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
References R/in
See http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Newcome,+it+should+be+as+1796-8
Also See Open-G
or g.-and The Three Worst Mistakes In All Bibles Are.
(4) Goodspeed, "the Word was divine==-Edgar J. Goodspeed
The complete Bible
an American translation / the Old Testament
translated by J. M. Powis
Smith and a group of scholars;
Imprint:
Description: xvi
p., 1 l., 883, iv, 202, iv, 246, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=82396727 - online version---lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/goodspeed.html
bible-researcher.com/goodspeed.html & wikidot.com/goodspeedsmith
(5) Charles
Cutler Torrey, "the Word was god
And The Four Gospels-A
New Translation, by Professor Charles Cutler Torrey
Harper Publishers,
"The Four Gospels A New
Translation by Charles Cutler Torrey",
1933
Hodder and Stoughton, Limited: London Also published by Harper and
Brothers
Publishers:
http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/bible/bibliog/e05.htm
-- listing of Bibles in collection&><
http://bibles.wikidot.com/torrey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cutler_Torrey
(6) New English Bible,
1961, "what God was,the Word was"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_English_Bible--http://www.bible-researcher.com/neb.html
(7) Moffatts Bible, 1935, "The Logos existed in
the very beginning, the Logos was with God,
the Logos was divine.
http://www.bible-researcher.com/moffatt.html --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moffatt
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collection/moffat.html--ISBN 0825432286
(8) Simple English Bible, "and
the Message was Deity"
International Bible Publishing
Company 1983--ISBN 978-0937830031
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Bible----http://www.librarything.com/work/1101328
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12281694&referer=brief_results ( 1981 version )
(9) Hermann Heinfetter, [A]s a god the Command was"
Herman Heinfetter [Pseudonym of Frederick Parker], A Literal Translation of
the New Testament of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on definite rules of translation, from the
text of the Vatican Manuscript. 6th ed.
Parker's translation of
the entire New Testament.
http://books.google.com/books?id=--
actual text----
http://www.archive.org/details/literaltranslati00parkrich --
downloadable version
http://www.bible-researcher.com/versbib9.html &
http://www.biblecollectors.org/literal_bible_translations.htm
(10) Robert Young,
LL.D. , A]nd a God (i.e. a Divine Being) was the Word"—
Concise Commentary on the Holy Bible, 1885
Note this book was designed
to flesh out his Literal translation and to compliment it.
s.google.co.uk/books?id=fq=Robert+Young,+Concise+Commentary+on+the+Holy+B_result&resnum
http://books.google.co.uk/books/pdf/Concise_commentary_on_the_holy_Bible ( PDF of book )
http://www.bible-researcher.com/young.html & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Young_(Biblical_scholar)
(11) Leicester Ambrose
Sawyer, "And the logos was a god"--Leicester Ambrose
Sawyer, 1879
THE FINAL THEOLOGY, Vol 1 "Introduction to the New Testament, Historic, Theologic and Critical, p. 353.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Leicester+Ambrose+Sawyer&source=-&sig=_result&resnum1
http://bibles.wikidot.com/sawyer & http://books.google.com/books?id=leicester+sawyer+new+testament
Plus http://www.virtualology.com/apleicesterambrosesawyer/
(12) A.N. Jannaris Ph D, [A]nd was a god"
A.N. Jannaris Lecturer of Post-Classical and Modern Greek - at the University
of
Zeitschrift fur die Newtestameutlich Wissencraft, (German periodical) 1901
An Historical Greek Grammar
chiefly of the Attic Dialect, as written and spoken from classical antiquity
down to
present time, founded upon the ancient texts, inscriptions
papyri and present popular Greek
Hildensheim -1968,
v-xi]. ISBN 3487018365 .
pp13-25, German periodical, (1901)
http://www.lsn.se/2509/Announcements/Jannaris%20A.N.%20Biography.pdf---- http://www.jstor.org/pss/695678
http://www.arch-ant.bham.ac.uk/research/individuals/harlow/bute.htm & http://www.ntresources.com/rd_dbib.htm
(13) George William
Horner, [A]nd (a) God was the word"--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_versions_of_the_Bible
George Horner, The Coptic
Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect, otherwise called
Sahidic and Thebaic with Critical Apparatus Literal English Translation Appendix
and Register of Fragments:
The Epistles of S. Paul (Vol IV) (Hardcover) , 7 vols.,
(1911-1924; repr. Osnabrk: 1969).
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0607coptic.html----http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7165148M
http://www.coptic.net/articles/CopticPapyrusCodices.txt
(14) Ernest Findlay
Scott, 1932, "[A]nd the Word was of divine nature The Literature of
the New Testament , 1932
http://www.amazon.com/literature-Testament-Ernest-Findlay-Scott ---ISBN 0313247439
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780313247439 &
google.co.uk/books?=Ernest+Findlay+Scott_result&resnum=1&ct=result
(15) James L. Tomanec, The Word was a God"
The New Testament of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Anointed , 1958
PRINTED BY ARROWHEAD PRESS,
http://bibles.wikidot.com/tomanek & http://www.thedcl.org/bible/index.html --
on CD >>
(16) Philip Harner, "The Word had the same nature as God"
Journal of Biblical
Literature ( JBL ), Vol. 92,1974-http://fdier02140.free.fr/Harner.pdf --
actual article>
http://www.sbl-site.org/publications & http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3323
( JBL is available via JSTOR at Australian National Library )
(17) Maximilian Zerwich S.J./Mary Grosvenor, "The
Word was divine"
Biblical Greek,
Grammatical Analysis of the Greek
New Testament, Unabridged, 4th Revised Edition
(by Max Zerwick and Mary Grosvenor,
http://books.google.com/books?i=Grammatical+Analysis+of+the+Greek+New+Testament,1
-actual book on
http://www.bsw.org/project/biblica/ & http://opac.ge.ch/gateway?sessionid=&s%20Moham
(18) Siegfried Schulz,
"And a god (or, of a divine
kind) was the Word"
Das Evangelium nach Johannes , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gtingen, Germany.1975
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search- &indexSchulz
-- authors books<
http://www.bsw.org/project/biblica/bibl85/Ani13.html -
footnote reference to this article.
http://www.biblicaltheology.com/Research/LockerM01.html
(19) Translator's NT,
"The Word was with God and shared
his nature
British and Foreign Bible
Society,
Publisher: British and
Foreign Bible Society (January 1973) Language: English - ISBN-10: 0564049913
by W D McHardy--http://www.ubs-translations.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=transbib&=366
& http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/biblesociety/index.html Plus http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/index.php
(20) Barclay,
When the world began, the Word was
already there.
The Word was with God, and the nature of the Word was the same as the nature of God.
(BNT) Barclay
New Testament (1969). -Collins
(vol. 1 in 1968; vol. 2 in 1969 Tyndale House,
http://kenanderson.net/bible/html/barclays.html &
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=-=Barclay%2C+William--
(21) Johannes
Schneider, and godlike sort was the Logos---Das Evangelium nach Johannes,
1978
http://www.amazon.com/Das-Evangelium-Nach-Johannes-Schneiderr=1-1
http://www.antiqbook.nl/boox/wev/54665.shtml & http://lccn.loc.gov/78379049
(22) Schonfield, 1985, "the Word was divine--The Original New
Testament, 1998
Waterstones &
Co. Ltd. in 1985)
of dubious use, controversial figure, may not support the
Bible.--http://lccn.loc.gov/97033524
& http://www.amazon.com/Original-New-Testament-Definitive-Translation/dp/1862042527
(23) Revised
English Bible "what God was, the Word was--Cambridge Press, 1989
http://www.bible-researcher.com/reb.html &-http://www.cambridge.org/uk/bibles/reb/
--
REB publishers web site>
(24) Cotton
Patch Version, and the Idea and God were One---Koinonia Partners, 1970
http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=362---http://rockhay.tripod.com/cottonpatch/john.htm
http://www.koinoniapartners.org/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen= _Code=bbcj
(25) Scholar's
Version, "The Divine word and wisdom was
there with God, and it was what God was
Scholars Version ( The Five Gospels )--Macmillan Publishers, 1993
http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/scriptures/sv.htm & http://lccn.loc.gov/94038279
(26) Jon Madsen,
"the Word was <EM>a divine Being" -- New
Testament A Rendering , 1994
ISBN 0863151841--http://bibles.wikidot.com/madsen
(27) Jurgen Becker, "ein Gott war das Logos" [a God/god was the
Logos/logos]
"Das Evangelium nach Johannes, (The Gospel according to John)--K 4/1; 4/2, Gersloh
1979; 1981. Gersloher Verl.-Haus Mohn)-
https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?method=sEvangeliumJohannesBbecker 2 &
http://www.uni-kiel.de/fak/theol/personen/becker.shtml
Pus https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?method=selectedCategory=any
(28) Curt Stage, "Das Wort war selbst gttlichen Wesens"
[The Word/word was itself a divine Being/being].
The New Testament, 1907-http://d-nb.info/36287297X--
http://books.google.com/books?Neue+Testament
(29) [It was strongly linked to God, yes itself divine Being/being]
Das Neue Testament / verdt. von Rudolf Bmer--
http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_b.html---
http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/deutsche_bibeln_1900_2003.html
http://jr3oja.blu.livefilestore.com//johannes.pdf---http://books.google.com/books-rudolf+bohmer 1910 &
http://www.bibelarchiv-birnbaum.de/autoren/autorenb/543-boehmer-rudolf.html
(30) Ludwig Thimme, 1919,"Gott von Art war das Wort" [God of Kind/kind was the Word/word]
Deutsch f die bibellesende Gemeinde---Privilegierte Wttembergische Bibelanstalt Stuttgart
1. Aufl.1946 647 Seiten 3 Karten Fotos
2. Aufl.1949 647 Seiten 3 Karten Fotos ----http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_t.html
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Thimme & http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/t/thimme_l.shtml
(31) Otto Baumgarten et al, 1920, "Gott (von Art) war der Logos" [God (of Kind/kind) was the Logos/logos]
The writings of the New
Testament again translated and for the present
http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_b.html#Baumgarten_Otto
http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_b.html#Bousset_Wilhelm-Heitmueller_Wilhelm
http://d-nb.info/gnd/118817841 & http://d-nb.info/560969260
(32) Oskar Holzmann, "ein Gott war der Gedanke" [a God/god was the
Thought/thought]
"Das Neue Testament nach dem Stuttgarter griechischen Text ersetzt und erklt
(After New Testament Stuttgart Greek text translates and explains )" Verlag von Alfred Telmann in Gien
(Publishing house by Alfred Telmann in pouring) First Volume 1926, Second Volume 1926
Offb.19:6 (Band 2, S.949):--ersetzungen, die in Joh. 1,1 den unbestimmten Artikel gebrauchen
1926: "und ein Gott war der Gedanke" (Oskar Holtzmann)
Offb.19: 6 (volume 2, S.949):
Translations, those in Joh. 1,1 the indefinite article use 1926: "
and a God was the Thought" (Oskar Holtzmann)
http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_h.html#Holtzmann_Oskar--
http://books.google.de/books?id=2Holtzmann,+Oscar=_result&resnum=9&ct=result----
Biography of Hotlzmann
(33) Friedrich Rittenlmeyer, 1938, "selbst ein Gott war das Wort" [itself a God/god was the Word/word]
Briefe er das Johannes evangelium
Letters Over The Johannes Gospel
,
(Translations, those in Joh. 1,1 the indefinite article use "
and even a God was the Word"
Johannes Gospel, Dr. Friedrich Rittelmeyer 1947)
http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_r.html#Rittelmeyer_Friedrich----http://d-nb.info/454055552
& https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?method=selectedCategory=any
(34) Lyder Brun (Norw. professor of NT
theology), 1945, "Ordet var av guddomsart"
[the Word was of divine kind]
http://www.revelation-resources.com/2008/07/06/norwegian-writings
-http://www.tf.uio.no/english/research/theological-disciplines.html
http://ext.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/65/11/328
(35) Friedrich Pfafflin, 1949, "war von gttlicher Wucht [was of divine Kind/kind]
Die Briefe des Neuen Testaments in der Sprache von heute / ers. von Friedrich Pfflin* -
Salzer, 1933--http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfflin--http://d-nb.info/gnd/119467445
& http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_p.html#Pfaefflin_Friedrich
(36) Ludwig
Albrecht, 1957, "gttlichen Wesen hatte das Wort" [godlike Being/being had
the Word/word]
The New Testament in the
language of the present translates and describes briefly by Ludwig
Albrecht Gotha,
Publishing house of the
protestant bookshop of P. Ott--http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Albrecht
http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_aa.html#Albrecht_Ludwig
& http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/a/albrecht_l.shtml
(37) Hermann Menge, "Gott (= gottlichen Wesens) war das Wort"[God(=godlike
Being/being) was the Word/word)
und Gott (= gtlichen Wesens) war das Wort [and God (= divine nature) was the word]--The
New Testamanent, 1961
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_online-bibeln%2Fmenge-bibel%2Flesen- _en&btnTrUrl=Translate
which is an on-line translation of :http://www.die-bibel.de/online-bibeln/menge-bibe /cache//
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Menge & http://bbkl.de/m/menge.shtml
(38)
Ernst Haenchen, 1980, "Gott (von
Art) war der Logos" [God (of Kind/kind) was the
Logos/logos]
Das Johannesevangelium : e. Kommentar / Ernst Haenchen. Aus d. nachgelassenen
Ms. hrsg. von Ulrich Busse. Mit e. Vorw. von James M. Robinson The Johannes gospel: e.
Comment/Ernst
Haenchen. --From D. left ms. hrsgg. of Ulrich of buses. With e. Vorw. by James M. Robinson
Author Haenchen, Ernst , Publisher T5ubingen: Mohr , -- ISBN 3161431022
http://reindex.net/STU/main/Hits.php?full=1&tgtId=1043&tgtPos=1&Collection=SD=a
query=Haenchen%2C+Ernst+++Das+Johannesmethod=simpleSearch
http://books.google.com/books?id=Johannesevangelium+Ernst+Haenchen,+1980
(39) Die Bibel in heutigem Deutsch, "r war bei Gott und in allem Gott gleich"
[He was with God and in all like God]
The Bible in today's German:
The good message.
Old and New Testament. With late writings Old Testament (Deuterokanon.
Writings/Apokryphen)
http://d-nb.info/820980161
(40) Siegfried Schulz,
1987, "ein Gott (oder: Gott von Art)
war das Wort"
[a God/god (or: God/god of Kind/kind) was the Word/word]. ( Also 1975 )
Siegfried Schulz-- (a) Das Evangelium nach Johannes--Aufl.1983
264 S.-Aufl.1987 266 S.
(b) Das Evangelium nach Johannes Evangelische --Verlagsanstalt>
http://www.bibelarchiv-vegelahn.de/bibel_g.html#Goettinger_Bibelwerk-NTD
http://www.uni-kiel.de/fak/theol/personen/becker_publ.shtml & http://d-nb.info/870905910
(41) William Temple,
Archbishop of York, "And the Word was divine"
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/61.html-http://www.bartleby.com/65/te/Temple-W.html
(42) John Crellius, Latin form of German, 1631, "The Word of
Speech was a God"
aka Johann Crell ( b 1590 - d 1633 )--
The 2 Books of
John Crellius Francus, Touching One God the Father-Bib ID
865017
Format Book , Microform -Author Crell, Johann, 1590-1633
Uniform Title
De uno Deo Patre libri duo. --English Publisher Printed in Kosmoburg
[i.e.
Description 2 pts. ([10], 315, [20] p.) Series Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 349:9.
Notes Translation
of: De uno Deo Patre libri duo.
Place of publication Reproduction
of original in Union Theological Seminary Library,
http://www.archive.org/stream/earlysourcesofen00boneuoft/earlysourcesofen00boneuoft_djvu.txt
http://openlibrary.org/a/OL4731285A--http://openlibrary.org/b/OL22297488M
http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn865017--http://www.isaacnewton.ca/keynes/pdf/English_KMS8_commentary.PDF
-- Note on Isaac Netwon rejecting the trinity.
(43) Ervin Edward Stringfellow (Prof. of NT Language and Literature/Drake
University),
"And the Word was Divine"
The Gospels, A Translation, Harmony and Annotations-Published in 1943
by the John S. Swift Co., Inc. at St..
(44) http://www.biblecollectors.org/biographies/eestringfellow.htm--http://lccn.loc.gov/44001452
http://library.dbq.edu:8675/ipac20/ipac.jsp?!dubuque&view=subscriptisearch&ri=1
(45) The New Simplified Bible, 2003,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the
Almighty One,
and the Word was like the Almighty
One"
-http://www.webspawner.com/users/newsimplifiedbible/nsbyvjohn.html
Or TrinitarianBiasTestPLUSmore.htm
Readsr John 1:1 NSB In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was like God (God-like).
http://simplebibletruths.net/TrinitarianBiasTestPLUSmore.htm
http://www.kennyham.com/BibleScope.htm-http://www.crosswire.org/forums/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=362
& http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=New+Simplified+Bible%22&so_result&resnum=10&ct=result
(46) 2001 Translation "In an ancient time there was the Word.
The Word was with God and the Word was powerful."
http://www.2001translation.com/JOHN.htm-http://www.geocities.com/onlinebibletranslations/
& http://www.biblebureau.com/readthebibleonline.htm
(47) The New
Testament: An Expanded Translation
In the beginning the
Word was existing. And the Word was in fellowship with God the Father.
And the Word was as to His essence
absolute deity. This Word was in the beginning in fellowship with
God the Father. All things through His intermediate agency came into being, and without Him there
came into being not even one thing which has come into
existence.
Wuest Expanded Translation (WET) , 1994--Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1994,
ISBN 0802808824
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuest_Expanded_Translation--http://www.bible-researcher.com/wuest.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=luv6JvCuuUEresult&resnum=4&ct=result
-- Actual bible on line at google books
(48) The Orthodox
Jewish Brit Chadasha (1997)
Bereshis (In the Beginning) was the Dvar Hashem [YESHAYAH 55: 11; BERESHIS 1:1],
and the Dvar Hashem was agav (along with) Hashem [MISHLE
Dvar Hashem was nothing less, by nature, than Elohim! [Psa 56:11(10); Yn 17:5; Rev. 19:13]
Publisher: AFI
International Publ; 2 edition (July 1997) --Language: English
--IISBN-10: ; 0939341034
http://www.afii.org/ojbc.txt http://www.afii.org/ojbible/0935.pdf
-- Book if John
&
http://www.amazon.com/Orthodox-Jewish-Brit-Chadasha/dp/0939341034
(49) Revised English
Bible, In the beginning the Word already was.
The Word was in God's presence, and what
God was, the Word was.
(REB) Revised English
Bible-Oxford and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_English_Bible-
(50) Todays English Version [The Good News Bible], Before the world was created, the Word already existed;
he was with God, and he was the same as God.-- (TEV) Todays English Version (1976) [The Good News Bible]
United Bible Societies (1976)--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_Bible
http://www.biblesociety.com.au/BS/Bible/history_othertrans.html
& http://www.bibletexts.com/reviews/bibles/tev.htm
(51) The Unvarnished
New Testament, In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was toward God, and God was what the
Word was.
The Unvarnished New
Testament ( UNT )--Phanes Press, 1991
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unvarnished_New_Testament--http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/scriptures/unt.htm
& http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/bible/versions/unt.htm
(52) International
Standard Version, In the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God.
Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made
(ISV) International
Standard Version-Davidson Press, 1998
http://tyndalearchive.com/scriptures/isv.htm--http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/bible/versions/isv.htm
(53)
Disciples New Testament, In the beginning [of creation] there was the Manifestation*;
And that Manifestation was with God;
and God was [the
embodiment of] that Manifestation.
Victor Alexander--ISBN:
1438215398 --Publisher: CreateSpace--Date of Publication:
http://www.v-a.com/bible/--http://www.v-a.com/bible/john_1-7.html#JOHN#1
& http://www.langtoninfo.com/showitem.asp?isbn=1438215398
(54) The Peoples
New Testament, That he who was afterwards manifest as the
Christ existed before creation began;
that he was present
with God; that he was divine; that he was the Word;
B.W. Johnson, 1891--http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/bjohnson/hg1/PNT04-01.HTM
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-New-Testament-Explanatory-Notes/dp/0892251417
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5014897881-
-& http://www.oldpaths.org/Library/Comments/Hess/Col/bib.html
(55) The
Abbreviated Bible, The Word existed with God from the
beginning,
and all things were created through him
James Leslie McCary and Mark McElhaney--Publisher - Van
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL4918632M--http://lccn.loc.gov/76173420
& http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/bible/versions/tab.htm
(56) Cassirer New Testament, It was the
Word that was at the very beginning;
and the Word was by the side of God,
and the Word was the very same as God---Heinz W. Cassirer,
1989--http://tyndalearchive.com/scriptures/cnt.htm
& http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/bible/versions/cnt.htm
(57) The Sacred
Scriptures, Bethel Edition, In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with Yahweh, and the Word was Elohim.
Assemblies of Yahweh,
1981http://www.innvista.com/culture/religion/bible/versions/ssbe.htm
http://www.assembliesofyahweh.com/SSBE.htm &
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Scriptures_Bethel_Edition
(58) New World
Translation, In [the] beginning the Word was,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.
Watchtower Bible and
Tract Society, 1961
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Translation_of_the_Holy_Scriptures.
http://www.watchtower.org/bible/index.htm
& http://www.bible-researcher.com/new-world.html
(59) New Testament: An
Understandable Version,
The Word [already] existed in the beginning [of time].
{Note: this is a reference to the preexistence of
Jesus. See verse 14}.
And the Word was with God and the Word was
[what] God
[was]--William E. Paul- Published by Author
House,
2002-http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=33940
http://tyndalearchive.com/scriptures/ntuv.htm & http://ncbible.org/AUV/Contents.htm
(60) Rolf Furuli "and the Word was a divine being"
If I
were to translate the Bible for a group with no previous knowledge of it, I
would use an
idiomatic
method, but I would follow your advise to translate important words as uniformely
as
possible. Because I see so much unnecessary theological coloring of the text in
the modern
versions, I
guess I would be extremely careful to render theologically important passages
as
literal as possible.
And the most important thing - I would like to have an extensive apparatus
of
footnotes, both giving textual variants and alternative renderings. But I would
not give
Louw & Nida's suggestions
in a footnote to
because they in
my view are completely unfounded, linguistically speaking.
To
John 1:1, however, I would use one of the
following five renderings in the main text,
and the
four others in a footnote: "And the Word was God", "and the Word
was divine",
"and the Word was a divine being",
"and the Word was a god", "and god was the word".
RegardsRolf--Rolf Furuli--Lecturer
in Semitic languages—
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Furuli
(61) the word was a god. (Revised
Version-Improved and Corrected)
http://www.mostholyfaith.com/bible/BibleXref.asp?xref=RVIC^John^1
http://www.mostholyfaith.com/bible/BibleIndex.asp?Parm=RVIC
http://www.heraldmag.org/2008/08nd_14.htm
http://www.biblereadersmuseum.com/BibleLink5.html
(62) Professor Felix Just S.J. In origin was the Word, and the Word was toward [the]
God,* and god/deity/God* was the Word.
Professor Felix Just,
S.J.,
007--http://catholic-resources.org/John/Outlines-Prologue.htm
actual translation web site ( see Note on Translation of 1:1-2
below )
http://catholic-resources.org/Courses/LMU/310Syllabus.htm----
web site and courses run by Felix Just
http://www.amazon.com/John-Jesus-History-Appraisals-Literature =8-1
Note on the Translation
of 1:1-2:
My translation
here is an attempt (maybe not completely successful?) to point out a curiosity
and
difficulty in the original Greek of John 1:1c, where the Evangelist writes,
"KAI ThEOS HN hO LOGOS."
If the evangelist
meant, "and the Word was God" (as it is often translated, capital
'God',
in the full Trinitarian sense of later Christianity), he
probably would have written "
KAI hO LOGOS
HN hO ThEOS"
(or "KAI hO ThEOS HN hO LOGOS"
–
essentially saying
A=B or B=A). Instead, he wrote "KAI ThEOS HN hO LOGOS,"
omitting the
expected article "hO" in front of "ThEOS."
..
The first difference/difficulty: Ancient
Greek has "definite articles" (in masculine, feminine,
and neuter
forms - but all equivalent to "the" in English), but it does NOT have
any "INdefinite
articles"(English
"a, an"). In translation, we usually write "the" if the
Greek noun is preceded by
a
definite article, while we often (but not always) have to ADD the word
"a" or "an" in standard
English when the definite article is missing in Greek (for
example, "hO STAUROS" is "the cross,
" while
"STAUROS" alone is "a cross"). So translating
"KAI ThEOS HN hO LOGOS"
as
"and the Word was a god" (as Jehovah's Witnesses do) adds an
indefinite article in
English that is not explicit in the orinigal Greek
text, and may or may not be appropriate
in
English translation.
A
second difference/difficulty: When
ancient Greek texts refer to "God" (ThEOS),
they
usually include the definite article in front, "hO ThEOS,"
even though translating this
too
literally sounds strange in English. We usually just say "God,"
rather than "the God."
Thinking of "hO ThEOS"
as "the (one and only) God" might help, but still, we do not normally
put
the" in front of "God." So most English translations simply drop
the definite article whenever
"hO ThEOS"
refers to the Jewish or Christian monotheistic "God." In contrast, in
polytheistic
contexts,
it is sometimes better to translate "hO ThEOS"
as "the god" (for example,
"He went to the temple of the god" - implying a
particular god, maybe Apollo,
from among
the many gods in the Greek pantheon).
..
So what did the
Evangelist mean in John 1:1c? He
certainly did not consider Jesus to be
just one
"divine being" or "deity" among many others. If he meant
"divine" in this broader sense,
he easily
could have used the related Greek adjective, "ThEIOS,"
rather than the noun "ThEOS."
(See, for example,
the adjective "ThEIOS" used twice in 2 Peter 1:3-4,
referring to
"divine power" and "divine nature"). Other
texts in John clearly show that the Fourth Evangelist
sees Jesus
in a unique relationship with God, calling him "the only-begotten
son"
(TON hUION TON
MONOGENH;
"in the name of the only-begotten son of God"
(EIS TO ONOMA TOU MONOGENOUS hIOU TOU ThEOU;
referring
to his glory "as of a father's only son" (hWSMONOGENOUS PARA
PATROS;
and
even calling him "the only-begotten God" (MONOGENHS ThEOS;
another
difficult phrase, with several ancient textual variations).
To summarize: The
Fourth Evangelist may not yet have thought of Jesus as the
"second person of the Trinity" (theological language that
took several centuries to
develop in
early Christianity - itself strongly influence by this Johannine passage);
yet
John certainly thought of Jesus as "divine" or "deity" or
"god" in a unique sense,
not
merely "a god," or one deity among many. Exactly
what he meant in John 1:1c
may not be
easy to understand, and it is even harder to translate into English because
of the
difficulties mentioned above. So rather than fixate on any particular English
translation,
even
the best of which might confuse us or lead us astray, we should try to continue
deepening
our
understanding of what John's entire Gospel says about the uniquely close
relationship of
Jesus and the Father.
(62) The New Testament, An improved version the Word
was a god –
Thomas Belsham> et
al., 1809
The New
Testament, An improved version upon the basis of Archbishop
Newcome's new
translation with a corrected text and notes critical and explanatory.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Se0UAAAAYAAJ&dq=Belsham+New+Tesresult&resnum=3&ct=result
--actual book
(63) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Se0UAAAAYAAJ&dq=Belst&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA200,M1
-- actual verse of John 1:1-http://www.bible-researcher.com/belsham.html--about Belsham
(64) A Paraphrase on the Gospel of John [A] Divine Person.
Samuel Clarke, M.A.,
D.D., Rector of St. James,
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3246630?lookfor=1&max=4079824--
actual book
at National Library of Australia
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_2077&chapter=157679&layout=html&Itemid=27
searchable book
pages 5,6,8 useful
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=samuel+clarke&type=all&limits=&submit=Find
(65) A Statement of Reasons For Not Believing the Doctrines of Trinitarians a god
Andrews Norton, D.D.
http://books.google.com/books?id==A+Statement+of+ReasonsTrinitarians#PPA280,M1
-- actual book. Search for a god on pages 2, 28, 67, 68, 280
http://books.google.com/books?iA+Statement+of+Reasons
+of+Trinitarians#PPA365,M1
1859 version. Actual text. See pages 40, 68, 113, 121, 158, 205, 231, 314, 365
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3756182?lookfor=A%20s%20of%20Trinitarians&offset=04
(66) The Beginnings of Christianity a God
PAUL WERNLE-PROFESSOR
EXTRAORDINARY OF MODERN CHURCH HISTORY AT THE
The Beginnings of
Christianity, vol. 1, The Rise of Religion [1903], 16
Translated by
THE REV. G. A. BIENEMANN, M.A. and edited, with an Introduction, by
THE REV. W. D.
MORRISON, LL.D.
VOL. I. - THE RISE OF THE
RELIGION--WILLIAMS AND NORGATE
BROAD STREET,
1903--http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wernle_paul/beginnings01.iii.v.ii.html –
actual book ,
chapter 15
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginnings-Christianity-Translated-Bienemann-introduction
& http://lccn.loc.gov/04017922
(67) Twenty First Century New Testament Literal Translation
and the [Marshal] [Word] was a god.
Vivian Capel-- Twenty First Century New Testament Literal Translation:
The Dual Translation
which Enables a Study of the
Literal Meanings of the Original Text to
be Combined with a
Published by Insight
Press,
http://www.biblereadersmuseum.com/biblebiblio.htm--
http://www.goldenagebooks.co.uk/ViewProduct.asp?productID=28
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twenty-Century-Testament-Literal-Translation/
(68) Concordant
Literal New Testament With Keyword Concordance "God
was the Word" --A.E. Knock
Concordant Literal New
Testament With Keyword Concordance, 1983--ISBN
0910424144
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL11380939M/Concordant
http://www.concordant.org/version/NewFiles/04_John.htm
& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordant_Literal_Version
(69) Dictionary of the Bible "the word was a divine being.'--Jesuit John L.
McKenzie, 1965 –
Dictionary of the Bible#
"Trinity.
In the words of Jesus and in
much of the rest of the NT the God of Israel (Gk. ho theos)
is the Father* of Jesus Christ. It is for this reason that the title
ho theos, which now designates
the Father as a personal reality, is not applied in the NT to Jesus
Himself;
Jesus is the Son of God (of ho theos). This is a matter of
usage and not of rule, and the noun
[Gk. ho theos] is applied to Jesus a
few times.
"Jn 1:1 should
rigorously be translated "the word was with the God [= the Father],
and the word was a divine being."
Thomas invokes Jesus with
the titles which belong to the *Father, "My Lord and my God" (Jn
"The glory of our great God and
Savior" which is to appear can be the glory of no other than Jesus (Tt
(Dictionary of the Bible, John
L. McKenzie, God, p317)
The trinity of God is
defined by the Church as the belief that in
God are three
persons who subsist in one nature. The belief as so defined was reached only
in the 4th and 5th centuries AD and hence is not explicitly and
formally a biblical belief.
The trinity of persons within the unity
of nature is defined in terms of "person" and "nature"
which are Gk philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in
the Bible.
The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in
which these terms and others
such as "essence" and "substance" were erroneously
applied to God by some theologians. ...
Without an explicit formula the NT leaves
no room to think that Jesus is Himself an object of the
adoption which He communicates to others. He knows the Father and reveals
Him.
He therefore belongs to the divine level
of being; and there is no question at all about the
Spirit belonging to the divine level of being. What is less clear about the Spirit is
His personal reality; often He is
mentioned in language in which His personal reality is not explicit.
(Dictionary of the Bible, John
L. McKenzie, p899)
http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Bible-John-L-Mckenzie/dp/0684819139--http://atijournal.org/McKenzie.htm
http://authors.simonandschuster.com/John-L-Mckenzie- & http://www.librarything.com/author/mckenziejohnl
"and the word was [a]
God."--Timothy Kenrick
AN EXPOSITON OF THE HISTORICAL WRITINGS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Vol.II.
Published in 1807, Printed
for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme (
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL21105798M & http://www.hurleybooks.com/si/44603.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jgU&source=gbs_search_r&cad=0_1#PRA4-PA12,M1
A Note : 70 Different people or Bible Publishers in 70
different situations recognize that was
God with a CAPITAL G is not the universal translation
of John 1:1.
And this work
has spanned many centuries and many countries!!
In fact, this
information makes it clear that what is orthodox
is not orthodox at all rather we see
that many
translators realize that God was telling us something very unique about Jesus
in
John 1:1 and his relationship with God. Many
translators let theology get in the way of truth -
here we see
honest efforts to show Gods word correctly translated.
May we always seek
the pure truth of Gods word.
Who is Jesus. Write
the librarian@simplebibletruths.net
Yahweh alone is truth and love. Amen.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he might destroy the works of the devil. (1John 3:8)
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In fact
here we present 70 non trinitarian translations of John 1:1 ...
a god was the Word.
Benjamin Wilson, 1865 ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphatic_Diaglott