PeterGershom

Greek and Hebrew are very economical languages. You can say more meaning in Greek and Hebrew with fewer words than you can in English or American style English. When the translators of the Bible tried to bring the ancient languages into English they took the admonishment not to add to or detract from what the Word of God was saying as to mean that they needed to give a one word for one word translation. But to do this you have to leave out some of the meaning of the ancient words. What the translators of the Amplified Bible tried to do was to include all the embedded meaning of the ancient wor