Halfway Through Holy Week

Leaving the question open

How you render this one word determines the meaning of the whole paragraph. A translator has to decide, and the decision is already an interpretation. Readers deserve to know that a decision was made.（ヤコブによる幼児福音書 13:3）

Before we start

Pull a single verse out of its paragraph and you can make it say almost anything. This particular verse has been made to say a great deal. Which is precisely why it deserves to be read with what stands on either side of it.（知られざる福音書（エゲルトン・パピルス2） 3:2）

Here is the conclusion, which is not an answer. I have decided to read this as a promise rather than a command, for the plain reason that I can live inside the first reading and not the second. Whether that is a legitimate reason I genuinely do not know.（エノク書 60:7）

Another way to read it

How you render this one word determines the meaning of the whole paragraph. A translator has to decide, and the decision is already an interpretation. Readers deserve to know that a decision was made.（アモス書 1:6）

Finally, back to the text. No amount of commentary competes with the texture of the sentences themselves. Read it out loud once before you read anything else about it.（列王紀上 9:19-21）

The text itself

I went through several scholarly treatments and found nothing decisive. On reflection, the absence of anything decisive may be the most appropriate result this passage could produce.（マルコによる福音書 11:4）

In its own century

Now set it back into its own century. What was the community that first heard this actually worried about? Simply imagining that changes the temperature of every line.（ハガイ書 1:6）