Bible Discussion Thread

Hi Mabel, I d never heard of the diaglott before so I looked it up. The author s translation at least in English of that version in the right hand side opposite the Greek states In the beginning was the Logos capital L and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God. I looked up the diaglott and you say that the second word for God is in lower case. That doesn t appear to be the case. In both instances the word for God is in capitals. The placement of a in front of God making it a god was the word doesn t appear to actually be in the Greek. Interestingly if you look at the diaglott, the first word for God there is no a in front of the word God and yet the translation is virtually the same at the second word for God yet places an a in front of it. An a can make a big difference in the meaning of English translation and it actually doesn t appear to be there at least the way I see it. I notice that there appears to be a slightly different word for God in each Greek word in the diaglott. The Strong s Greek actually translates the word in both instances for God as Theos. When you say that it is the original Greek version, I m not so sure of the translation which may have been influenced by the fact that it was a Watch Tower publication and Jehovah s Witness doctrine. I notice that the diaglott itself was a Vatican translation. Also I ve never seen the original Greek manuscripts and the diaglott may not be the same. In any event the Jews clearly crucified Christ because of His claim to be God which is consistent with and the word was with God and the word was God. I tried to copy the diaglott to this post but it wouldn 't accept it.