One of my Greek professors, Dr. Pennington, would always say that "translation is treason." Here is another argument for more literal translations of the Bible. Or should we say less treasonous? Camus's Translator on Translation HT Jim Hamilton
inaugural post
"It is a great and very rare thing for a man, after he has contemplated the whole creation, physical and nonphysical, and has discerned its mutability, to pass beyond it, and, by the continued soaring of his mind, to attain to the unchangeable substance of God, and, in the height of contemplation, to learn from…