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#revelation #apocalypseofjohn
I have finished and published my 2nd edition of Revelation. Almost every footnote has been expanded, revised, or corrected. Mainly because I purchased the Editio Critica Major, but also because I have looked personally at lots of manuscript images myself. There are also an increased number of footnotes, now 542 of them. The critical apparatus, including the endnotes, cite 86 Greek manuscripts, 17 Greek New Testament editions, as well as early versions and Fathers. The main editions collated are the ECM, NA28, SBL, TH (Tyndale House), Robinson-Pierpont, Byzantine Greek, Antoniades, and the Textus Receptus. When the dozens of editions of the Textus Receptus disagree with Scrivener 1894, this is noted, for 5 Erasmus editions, Stephens 1550, Beza, Elzevir, Aldus, Colinaeus, Bengel, and the Complutensian Polyglot. At the end of the book are several tables, including a list of all handwritten Greek manuscripts of the Apocalypse of John, now updated to include more than 330. Another thing that is new is I have added the readings of the Arabic text found in Walton's Polyglot, though not in all variants. Further, I downloaded and possess my own copies of the main Vulgate texts, and so now their readings are included in many more footnotes than before. I did not put "2nd Edition" in the book title or cover, because then Amazon would make me use a new and different ISBN, and a new link to the book would generate, and all my old links to Amazon on the PDFs that have been downloaded for years, would not lead to the 2nd Edition. However, inside the book in the first couple pages, it says "Produced April 7, 2025." That's how you can know it is the 2nd Edition.
Free PDF: https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/revwgrk.pdf
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https://bibletranslation.ws/re....velation-2nd-edition

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#enoch #gospelofluke #mary
Mary and Enoch?

My translation of the song of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Luke chapter One verses 49-50 is different from all others. First, here are the main translations:

NIV 49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name.
50 His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation.
NKJV 49 For He who is mighty has done great things for me, And holy is His name.
50 His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation.
ESV 49 - for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.
NASB 49 “For the Mighty One has done great things for me; And holy is His name.
50 “And His mercy is upon generation after generation Toward those who fear Him.
NLT 49 For the Mighty One is holy, and he has done great things for me.
50 He shows mercy from generation to generation to all who fear him

Here is the Greek text below:
(ignoring punctuation, capitalization and verse numbers, since those were not in the original manuscripts.)

ὅτι ἐποίησέν μοι μεγάλα ὁ δυνατός καὶ ἅγιον τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ
καὶ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ εἰς γενεὰς καὶ γενεὰς τοῖς φοβουμένοις αὐτόν

Here is my English translation:

because the Mighty One did great things for me. And holy will be his name,
and his mercy to those who fear him, into age after age.

There is not one verb in this whole sentence in the Greek: "And holy will be his name, and his mercy to those who fear him, into age after age." Therefore, which English tense the translator puts it into, has to be his/her own interpretation. I made both the end of verse 49 and all of verse 50 a statement about the future, and combining the two.

It is quite similar to Enoch 9:4 where we find: ὁ θρόνος τῆς δόξης σου εἰς πάσας τὰς γενεὰς τοῦ αἰῶνος, καὶ τὸ ὄνομά σου τὸ ἅγιον καὶ μέγα καὶ εὐλογητὸν εἰς πάντας τοὺς αἰῶνας..

Enoch says His name will be holy into all the ages.

Mary was certainly influenced by Hannah's words in the beginning of the book of 1 Samuel, but she may well have also been influenced by the book of Enoch. Jesus Christ himself certainly had read Enoch and he alluded to it, as did the apostles.
Download my translation of Luke with the Greek text: https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/lukewgrk.pdf
https://bibletranslation.ws/mary-and-enoch/