
Episode 222: Pamela Eisenbaum - Paul & Salvation
The Bible For Normal People
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All the Nation Streaming to Jerusalem
When Paul talks about all the nations of the world, and we use this word, ethnic nations, it gets translated Gentiles so often, but he really means people groups. There's no such thing as an individual Gentile even my, so the word ethnic, which is the plural for Gentiles or nations, translates from the Hebrew, goying, and a boy is a nation, not an individual. So when Paul uses, you know, a singular, he doesn't mean, you know,. a non Jew, except to maybe call them a Greek or something else but that also gets distorted in translation. It's a very big picture. I think it's a way Paul breaks the
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