On 06/02/2006 07:35, Rolf Furuli wrote:
... But the NWT translators have not made choices on the part of the readers in connection with (LM, but have made a consistent translation giving the readers the opportunity to do the interpretation and decide whether the time reference is unending or not.
No, Rolf, they have made choices. Firstly, they have chosen to render the term consistently in the same way. OK, this is the general translation principle of NWT, but it is not one which is held to without exception (e.g. KURIOS in the New Testament), and so it is a choice of the translators not to make an exception here. Secondly, they have chosen as a consistent rendering "indefinitely lasting" rather than an alternative such as "eternal", or "long-lasting", or "age-long". This is a translation choice, and, whether it is theologically motivated or not, it is one which necessarily predisposes readers to understand the passages in one way rather than another, with significant consequences for their theology.
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