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To: count-your-change; xzins
“But he saith to them: It is I; be not afraid.” (John 6:20)

In Greek word order doesn't matter. Either way, ego eimi or eimi ego is not God's name.

480 posted on 07/11/2010 10:09:14 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50
No the word order doesn't matter. The point is there is no title or name here just a simple reply of identification as any one of us might do, “hello’ it's me!”.

To translate John 6:20 as “I Am” in English violates the sense of the Scripture and good translation. Jesus is telling the disciples why they should not be afraid, he is there, it's him. It is I.

492 posted on 07/11/2010 10:50:53 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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