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"The New World to Come"

"The New World to Come"

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‎The phrase the new world to come may be especially difficult to render, since a more or less literal rendering of world is likely to be understood in the sense of “earth.” In some cases it may be necessary to translate the new world to come as “the new way in which people are going to live.” The focus here is far more upon the culture than upon any kind of physical earth.

Ellingworth, Paul, and Eugene Albert Nida. A Handbook on the Letter to the Hebrews. New York: United Bible Societies, 1994. Print. UBS Handbook Series.

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