Romans 12:6

Rob, what point are you trying to make? I'm really not getting it.

At any rate, these are all charisma gifts, same word as in 1 Cor. 12:4ff.

 

.......but, but......I thought all these MV's said the same thing!!??:laugh:

 

Rob, I overlooked the CSB's rendering. You're so right.

The CSB's rendering is objective while the others are subjective.

But if we see a true parallelism with "measure of faith" (v.3) and "proportion of faith" (v.6), then we'd have to go subjective, a person's faith.

Hope this helps.

 

proportion

• noun 1 a part, share, or number considered in relation to a whole. 2 the ratio of one thing to another. 3 the correct or pleasing relation of things or between the parts of a whole. 4 (proportions) dimensions; size.

• verb formal adjust so as to have a particular or suitable relationship to something else.

— PHRASES in (or out of) proportion 1 according (or not according) to a particular relationship in size, amount, or degree. 2 regarded without (or with) exaggeration. sense of proportion the ability to judge the relative importance of things.

— DERIVATIVES proportioned adjective.

— ORIGIN Latin, from pro portione ‘in respect of a share’

standard

• noun 1 a level of quality or attainment. 2 a required or agreed level of quality or attainment. 3 something used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations. 4 (standards) principles of honourable, decent behaviour. 5 a military or ceremonial flag. 6 an upright water or gas pipe. 7 a tree that grows on an erect stem of full height. 8 a shrub grafted on an erect stem and trained in tree form.

• adjective 1 used or accepted as normal or average. 2 (of a size, measure, etc.) regularly used or produced. 3 (of a work, writer, etc.) viewed as authoritative and so widely read.

— DERIVATIVES standardly adverb.

— ORIGIN Old French estendart, from estendre ‘extend’.

ἀναλογία
analogia
an-al-og-ee'-ah
From a compound of G303 and G3056; proportion: - proportion.

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The Holman is the only translation I have that doesnt use proportion except for the old Bishops Bible which uses "measure" which is a little closer to proportion.

What they have done is took the liberty of interpreting the phrase for you. While the others just translated literally.

If you look at proportion in its verb form you have its meaning as comparing and living up to something. That being "faith". So in effect you are taking an action according to the standards of something, faith in this case.

 

After reading it in Greek I think you have to interpret "proportion" according to the aorist passive participle "given" in the first half of the verse. So we are to prophesy only to the "proportion," or comparative amount of faith given to us to prophesy.

The word for "proportion," only occurs here in the NT, but it's not that difficult a word. Anlex has its meaning as, "ἀναλογία , ας , ἡ as showing the correspondence between two things right relationship, comparison, proportion; κατὰ τὴν ἀναλογίαν in agreement with, in proportion to." According to the Perseus database (and Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon) it was used in classical Greek by mathematicians for comparing ratios, etc.