Article August 2, 1941 Issue

Bible Notes

[The Biblical citations given in the Christian Science Quarterly are from the Authorized King James Version. The Bible Notes in this column can be used, if deemed necessary, to elucidate some of the words or passages contained in the Bible Lessons. The Notes in this issue are related to the Lesson-Sermon designated to be read in Christian Science churches on August 10, 1941.]

"The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth" (Eph. 5:9)—In some of the manuscripts of the New Testament we find the word "photos" (light), instead of "pneumatos" (Spirit). Accepting this evidence, Weymouth (Fifth Edition) translates: "The effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness, and truth;" and Moffatt: "The fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true."

"There are differences of administrations" (I Cor. 12:5)—The Greek word rendered "administration" was one regularly used in the sense of "service"; so one might translate: "There are different kinds of service." The Twentieth Century New Testament suggests: "Ways of serving differ."

"There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all" (I Cor. 12:6)—In the Greek, the noun rendered "operations" and the verb translated "worketh" come from the same root. Moffatt renders: "varieties of effects, but the same God who effects everything in everyone;" and the Twentieth Century New Testament: "Results differ, yet the God who brings about every result is in every case the same."

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