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Podcast: Restitutio
Episode: 350 Bible 21 – Firstborn Of or Firstborn Over? (Translating Colossians 1.15)
Description: Colossians 1.15 presents an interesting test case to examine translation bias. Well-meaning Bible students have taken this text in at least three different ways. However, some translators, motivated by a fear that readers might see Christ as a member of creation, have increasingly pushed for translating this text so that it says Christ is superior to all creation and thus on the creator side of the creator-creature divide. In what follows I examine several popular translations and discuss the two main issues in this verse.
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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature...