[B-Greek] Acts 7:20

Fridolin Janzen fjanzen at gmx.net
Fri Sep 19 16:40:26 EDT 2008


Dear Friends,

In translating Acts 7:20 I noticed a difference between the translations:

Some translate ASTEIOS TO THEO:

 = beautiful - to God, in the sight of God, before God

While others translate:

KJV, for example:

exceeding fair

The explanation that was given to me is that “ASTEIOS TO THEO” is a Hebraism
and should be translated as “exceeding fair”, as is the case in the KJV. So
my questions are the following:

If this is so evident, why didn’t Luther, Schlachter, the Vulgate, and
others translate it this way?
Since this is the only occurrence in the NT, how can someone say with
certainty that it is a Hebraism?
If I translate it this way, can I still say that I am translating by “formal
equivalence”?

I am not trying to raise a quarrel, but would only like to get things
straight in my translation.

Abraços,

Fridolin Janzen
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