Short (5-20 mins)
New TestamentBiblical Languages
Evangelical
Formal Equivalents do NOT reflect Greek Structures
Theologian
Bill Mounce
Duration
8.25
Uploaded to YouTube
3 November 2017
Added to Database
17 December 2025
YouTube description
See my relevant blog at BillMounce.com.
Beware of deceptive marketing that tells you formal equivalent translations of the Bible reflect the underlying Greek structure. They do not, consistently. Sometimes they do; sometimes they don't. Greek and English are just too different. Here is an example using the issue of how to convey a series. By the way, at one point it sounds like I am calling the CBS a formal equivalent translation. I did not mean to imply that.
