Article May 18, 1935 Issue

Bible Notes

"None of them that trust in him shall be desolate" (Ps. 34: 22)—Literally, "shall be held guilty" or "suffer punishment" (Brown, Driver, Briggs, Hebrew Lexicon, p. 79); while it may be noted that the verb rendered "trust" means more exactly "seek refuge" (ibid., p. 340). Consequently, Moffatt translates: "None who shelter with him shall be punished;" and Smith: "None who take refuge with him will be held guilty;" while the American Revised Version suggests: "None of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned."

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Ex. 20:3)—The idiom of the original suggest an even more definite prohibition, which is well rendered by Moffatt: "You shall have no gods but me."

"To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him" (I Cor. 8:6)—The preposition rendered "of," means literally "from"; while that translated "in" can also mean "unto" or "for" (cf. Souter: Greek Lexicon, p. 73f.). Goodspeed well translates: "For us there is just one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and for whom we live." Similarly, Moffatt has: "For us there is one God, the Father, from whom all comes, and for whom we exist."

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