L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #193 Non-scholar's why is word A translated as B in verse X?

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

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 the forum post: Philemon 6 - Logos Forums

The answer for the scholar lies in grammars, lexicons, textual variants added to the process described below for the non-scholar.

MJ. Smith said:

  1. Open your Bible to Philemon 6
  2. Open the Information Panel
  3. Select the word in question
  4. Expand the translation panel to see the various opinions of translators.
  5. Check footnotes in Bibles for explanations
  6. Check study Bible for explanations
  7. Check commentaries for explanation
  8. Check some of the theologies that use the expression "communion of saints"
  9. Come to some tentative conclusion OR be satisfied with refined questions

 

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