Rev 19:7
Posted: February 15th, 2014, 9:59 am
Hi,
I am a beginner but straight away i have spotted this in the sinaiticus and the textus receptus.
Revelation 19:7 in the translations it reads ' Let us rejoice and be glad, and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready. '. Some translations say 'his bride' in place of 'his wife'.
However, after having looked at the greek it doesn't appear to say that at all.
οτι ηλθεν ο γαμοϲ του αρνιου και η γυνη αυτου ητοιμαϲεν εαυτη
It says to me 'for the marriage feast of the little lamb has come and the woman prepared it herself'.
The reason i come to this conclusion is because the noun 'αρνιου' is neuter and does not have a gender. The 'αυτου' is in the masculine/neuter form and so it must refer to 'αρνιου' and cannot say 'his' or 'he' or 'she', but must say 'it'.
Even if it did pertain to the masculine 'γαμοϲ', then the 'αυτου' would still have to say 'it' in an english translation as feast has no gender in english. Though a lambkin has a gender in english, from this translation we know not the gender, so it has to be 'it'.
Also the word 'γυνη' is not the greek word for bride and I don't belive it should be translated as wife either, but just woman.
All wives are woman but not all woman are wives, not to mention, one cannot be a wife if one is not yet married.
Plus the hebrew doesn't have a word specifically for wife, its just woman. When the greek has copied from the hebrew OT, it uses 'γυνη' for the hebrew word for woman. A mans woman is his wife, so there is no need for the word wife I believe anyway.
Does this make sense? Or is my greek terrible lol
I am aware that people think this lambkin is 'Jesus' but he is referred to as the 'amnos' masculine lamb. This word is not used in revelation, the 'αρνιου' is only used in revelation and in John, that I can see so far. These are two different words and, in John 21:15 (αρνια) and John 1:29 (αμνος)....he distinguished between the two words when he wrote.
I do apologize if I have posted in the wrong thread, it seemed to fit here.
I am a beginner but straight away i have spotted this in the sinaiticus and the textus receptus.
Revelation 19:7 in the translations it reads ' Let us rejoice and be glad, and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready. '. Some translations say 'his bride' in place of 'his wife'.
However, after having looked at the greek it doesn't appear to say that at all.
οτι ηλθεν ο γαμοϲ του αρνιου και η γυνη αυτου ητοιμαϲεν εαυτη
It says to me 'for the marriage feast of the little lamb has come and the woman prepared it herself'.
The reason i come to this conclusion is because the noun 'αρνιου' is neuter and does not have a gender. The 'αυτου' is in the masculine/neuter form and so it must refer to 'αρνιου' and cannot say 'his' or 'he' or 'she', but must say 'it'.
Even if it did pertain to the masculine 'γαμοϲ', then the 'αυτου' would still have to say 'it' in an english translation as feast has no gender in english. Though a lambkin has a gender in english, from this translation we know not the gender, so it has to be 'it'.
Also the word 'γυνη' is not the greek word for bride and I don't belive it should be translated as wife either, but just woman.
All wives are woman but not all woman are wives, not to mention, one cannot be a wife if one is not yet married.
Plus the hebrew doesn't have a word specifically for wife, its just woman. When the greek has copied from the hebrew OT, it uses 'γυνη' for the hebrew word for woman. A mans woman is his wife, so there is no need for the word wife I believe anyway.
Does this make sense? Or is my greek terrible lol
I am aware that people think this lambkin is 'Jesus' but he is referred to as the 'amnos' masculine lamb. This word is not used in revelation, the 'αρνιου' is only used in revelation and in John, that I can see so far. These are two different words and, in John 21:15 (αρνια) and John 1:29 (αμνος)....he distinguished between the two words when he wrote.
I do apologize if I have posted in the wrong thread, it seemed to fit here.