訳をどう選べばいいか分かりません
口語訳・新共同訳・文語訳・英訳とありますが、どれを主に使えばよいのか決められません。選び方の基準はありますか。
口語訳・新共同訳・文語訳・英訳とありますが、どれを主に使えばよいのか決められません。選び方の基準はありますか。
The answer differs depending on whether you're asking historically or confessionally. Tracing how the early church handled it locates the modern debate quite usefully. This may be a minority reading, but here is how I take it.
There's a long history here, with the argument running from the fourth century onward. In my experience the practice changes before the understanding does.
Most scholars today read this figuratively, though a literal reading has serious defenders.
Sometimes changing translation dissolves the question entirely. Commentaries genuinely diverge here, so read two or three rather than one.
The original language has a wider range of meaning than the English suggests. It's fine to carry the question unresolved for a while. I've written this confidently but I would genuinely welcome disagreement.
Tracing how the early church handled it locates the modern debate quite usefully. I'm a minister and my honest answer to this is that I don't know.
Note that interpretation has already entered at the translation stage here.
If you're not in a hurry, come back to this in a year. I'd start with your own reading before reaching for anyone's doctrinal summary.
背景として、当時の共同体が置かれていた状況を知ると理解しやすくなります。この点については、信仰の立場と学問の立場で答えが違ってきます。私も同じ道を通りました。今は答えより問い自体を大事にしています。
In practice, starting small is the only approach I've seen actually work.
If you're not in a hurry, come back to this in a year.
I'm a minister and my honest answer to this is that I don't know. Note that interpretation has already entered at the translation stage here.