I have achieved a milestone in posting Black Trinitarian Theology blog for the thirtieth time. In commemoration, I made a post that gives a glipse into the kind of work I want to do on this blog as well in my scholarship. Below is my translation and brief commentary on Paul’s letter to the Galatians
Trinitarian Faith and Racial Reconciliation in Galatians 1:1-9
*Corrections to Translation (thank you, Rob K.):
A. Verse 4 should read “The one who gave himself up” not giving himself up. The Greek word is in the aorist participle, and aorist always means a past and finished action.
B. Verse 6 should read “changing from the one,” and not “changed”; this reflects the urgency of the moment for Paul writing to the Galatians in their historical context.
C. Verse 8 should read “beside the one which was preached to you” and not “the one who”; the relative pronoun and definite articles are in the neuter form and does not refer to a person in the original Greek, but to an object (an event), the Gospel.
