Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.
This tip is inspired by a variety of forum posts.
This is a "do as I say not as I do" sort of post as I often embarrass myself with a too cursory verification of tagging "errors'. In this particular case Graham pointed out the error of my ways.
- I was running down the list in the Names of God interactive for the times the Holy Spirit is named as Spirit.
- Ro 2:29 has spiritual (as opposed to literal) marked as a name of the Holy Spirit. This seems wrong as there is no indication that a person (or diety) is implied.
- Note that my default Bible is the NRSV to that is the translation I am seeing.
- You may use F7 to identify a Bible that does treat it as a reference to the Holy Spirit. I chose the NIV.
- In the NIV what is "spiritual" in the NRSV is "Spirit" - looking at the reverse interlinear one can see that "Spirit" is a reasonable translation of the underlying Greek.
- Therefore, what is an oddity in the interactive Names of God, is simply a reflection of different translations not a coding error.
As much of the FL tagging is against the original language, the same process works for understanding many "errors/oddities" in tagging.
