Using the Original Languages in Preaching

TylerR
Church & Ministry
Original Languages
Preaching

Jay Adams: Many good men who could have profited from a sensible use of the original languages were turned off by seminary teachers who taught them the study of languages as if their life occupation would be to teach Classics or Semitics in a university.

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Bert Perry
Wed, 09/13/17 12:45 pm

I am at best a dilettante in the original languages, slightly stronger in Hebrew but good at neither, but even so I must note how much of a delight it is to see even a hint of the original word pictures, exactly what word is used to convey an idea, etc.. Like the seminary professor’s admonition that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing your bride through the veil—something’s missing.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.