Rom 12:9 hH AGAPH ANUPOKRITOS

From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Wed Jan 06 1999 - 21:46:51 EST


I was doing a study of the attributes of love, and I ran into this verse:

Rom 12:9 hH AGAPH ANUPOKRITOS

I interpreted this as meaning "love is genuine" (or perhaps "love does not
play-act", which changes the adjective into a verb, but seems to express
the same thought). But when I turned to five translations (NRSV, REB, NAB,
NJB, NASB), *none* of them interpreted it this way. They all said something
like "*let* love be sincere".

Why? What am I missing?

Jonathan
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