From ea69352cd94d719114ba8edd7709d10cf6b82ef8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susan Quigley Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:52:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed "easier to say" note --- mat/09/03.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mat/09/03.md b/mat/09/03.md index 6f3306893..d59d19bb3 100644 --- a/mat/09/03.md +++ b/mat/09/03.md @@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ This is moral evil or wickedness, not simply error in fact. Here "hearts" refers to their minds or their thoughts. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]]) -# For which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? +# For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? -Jesus uses a question to challenge the scribes. He does not mean one action is harder for him than the other. He is reminding the scribes that they believe when God heals a person's body it means he has forgiven them of their sins. AT: "For you know it is just as easy to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' as it is to say, 'Get up and walk'." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) +Jesus uses this question to make the scribes think about what might prove whether or not he could really forgive sins. AT: "I just said 'Your sins are forgiven.' Perhaps it is harder to say "Get up and walk," because the proof of whether or not I can heal the man will be shown by whether or not he gets up and walks" or "You may think that it is easier to say "Your sins are forgiven" than it is to say 'Get up and walk." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) -# which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? +# which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? -This can be translated as an indirect quotation. AT: "it is just as easy to tell a person his sins are forgiven as it is to tell him to get up and walk" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]]) +The quotes can be translated as indirect quotes. AT: "which is easier, to tell someone that his sins are forgiven, or to tell him to get up and walk?" or "you may think that it is easier to tell someone that his sins are forgiven than to tell him to get up and walk." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]]) # Your sins are forgiven