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Back to the serious again….

My wife has started collecting the Life Application Bible Commentary and she recently received their volume including 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus. Of course, in light of these posts, I was curious to see how they would handle 1 Tim 2. Drum roll please…..

Well, they did quite a dance around the main flash points and took a politically correct approach. Basically, they followed the main stream translations of the text, but emphasized that the letter deals specifically with Ephesian issues and therefore can not be considered to be applicable to the church as a whole or even to the Ephesians permanently. i.e. they played it safe.

I was mildly disappointed (although not surprised) because in other volumes they dig deeper into the Greek and do not seem to be afraid to say a translation is “inadequate” or even flawed. For example, their treatment of “submit” in Ephesians 5 is much better IMO, although still not perfect.