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The New Testament Translation of Jesus Emotion Words in Luke
There's a lot of emotion stuff in the new testament. I've often wondered if, a, if jesuss had tears in his eyes when he sees these things,. That would be, i mean, crying as is a pretty jewish thing. And we completely miss that when we just translate agonia. So a jesus, his emotion concept there isn't just kind of inner anguish. I it's an intense wrestling and struggling. There's some greek mythological texts that use that word for the struggle of the gods. In addition to showing the sort of divine, cosmic struggle that jesus is going into, may pulling from actual literature, concepts outside of the jew