From c28b9d8e9b19f02a896e13e26526d6d995691f09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Obiwon Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:23:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'rom/11/24.md' --- rom/11/24.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/rom/11/24.md b/rom/11/24.md index b747f77afc..78b3fed886 100644 --- a/rom/11/24.md +++ b/rom/11/24.md @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ # For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree? -Paul continues speaking of the Gentile believers and Jews as if they were branches of a tree. You can translate this in an active form. Alternate translation: "For if God had cut you out of what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature had grafted you into a good olive tree, how much more will he graft these Jews, who are the natural branches, into their own olive tree?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) +"For if God had cut you out of what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature had grafted you into a good olive tree, how much more will he graft these Jews, who are the natural branches, into their own olive tree?" # how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree? -This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "then these Jews, who are the natural branches, will certainly be grafted back into their own olive tree." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]]) +"then these Jews, who are the natural branches, will certainly be grafted back into their own olive tree." # branches -Paul is speaking of the Jews and Gentiles as if they were branches. The "natural branches" represent the Jews, and the "grafted branches" represent the Gentile believers. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) +Paul is speaking of the Jews and Gentiles as if they were branches. The "natural branches" represent the Jews, and the "grafted branches" represent the Gentile believers.