03-24-2009, 04:00 AM
Shlama Akhi Distazo,
YOLPANA does mean "teaching/doctrine" and I have translated it as such in Acts 24:14. However your view is a bit too narrow in my opinion. Lamsa and Murdock translate Acts 24:5 as I have, "sect". Etheridge says "chief of the teaching of the Nazarenes", and either is valid.
The Pharisees in the passage are clearly referring to the Nazarenes as a group with a minority teaching, and in English that teaching in minority status is best expressed as "sect". Of course it was the DOCTRINE that was being discussed, but Paul makes it clear that there was nothing in his belief that was apart from normative Judaism with the exception of taking Y'shua -s Savior. He says so clearly in Acts 24:12-14 and in both the previous and subsequent chapters of Acts.
Show me a sect in contention and I will show you a controversial teaching behind that sect every time.
YOLPANA does mean "teaching/doctrine" and I have translated it as such in Acts 24:14. However your view is a bit too narrow in my opinion. Lamsa and Murdock translate Acts 24:5 as I have, "sect". Etheridge says "chief of the teaching of the Nazarenes", and either is valid.
The Pharisees in the passage are clearly referring to the Nazarenes as a group with a minority teaching, and in English that teaching in minority status is best expressed as "sect". Of course it was the DOCTRINE that was being discussed, but Paul makes it clear that there was nothing in his belief that was apart from normative Judaism with the exception of taking Y'shua -s Savior. He says so clearly in Acts 24:12-14 and in both the previous and subsequent chapters of Acts.
Show me a sect in contention and I will show you a controversial teaching behind that sect every time.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
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