THE RED PILL
DIALOGUE AND DISCUSSION ON EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT AND RACE
Biblical Translations
The New English Translation Bible, commissioned by The Biblical Studies Foundation, is available at the well chosen URL address bible.org.
I discovered this translation after reading about President Jimmy Carter's Habitat for Humanity work, as journaled by David Waters with the Commercial appeal. Mr. Waters writes of Carter as referencing the Parable of Talents.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/columnists/david-waters/the-post-pr...
This made me recall a lesson long ago about how "talent" crossed from being a term for weights, measures, and money into an adjective that means possessing and honing a skill.
Said Parable of Talents in this NET Bible at conveniently named bible.org is one translation of Matthew 25:13-30 that uses the word SLAVE, along with the Disciple's Literal New Testament, the Holman Christian Standard Bible, the Jubilee Bible 2000, the Lexham English Bible, the New American Standard Bible, the New International Readers Version, the New Revised Standard Version, the New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised, the New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition, the New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, the Orthodox Jewish Bible, and The Voice Bible.
So from the comparative source available at https://www.biblegateway.com/
That's 13 out of 54 translations to insist on writing SLAVE.
And 41 out of 54 translations that use the word servant.
In all 54 translations I read this as a critique of the master, and not the people being oppressed. The slave/servant, who we are told by analysis to critique for not making more money (capital) for the master, is the only one pointing out said master's brutality.
24 Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,
25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’
26 But his master answered, ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?
27 Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!
28 Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten.
29 For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
I discovered this translation after reading about President Jimmy Carter's Habitat for Humanity work, as journaled by David Waters with the Commercial appeal. Mr. Waters writes of Carter as referencing the Parable of Talents.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/columnists/david-waters/the-post-pr...
This made me recall a lesson long ago about how "talent" crossed from being a term for weights, measures, and money into an adjective that means possessing and honing a skill.
Said Parable of Talents in this NET Bible at conveniently named bible.org is one translation of Matthew 25:13-30 that uses the word SLAVE, along with the Disciple's Literal New Testament, the Holman Christian Standard Bible, the Jubilee Bible 2000, the Lexham English Bible, the New American Standard Bible, the New International Readers Version, the New Revised Standard Version, the New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised, the New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition, the New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, the Orthodox Jewish Bible, and The Voice Bible.
So from the comparative source available at https://www.biblegateway.com/
That's 13 out of 54 translations to insist on writing SLAVE.
And 41 out of 54 translations that use the word servant.
In all 54 translations I read this as a critique of the master, and not the people being oppressed. The slave/servant, who we are told by analysis to critique for not making more money (capital) for the master, is the only one pointing out said master's brutality.
24 Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,
25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’
26 But his master answered, ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?
27 Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!
28 Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten.
29 For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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