the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change

The Greek that is translated as §the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change” or similar in English is translated in the following ways ion other languages:

  • Tzotzil: “the lights, their shiningness changes; their light can be shaded. Not thus our Father God.”
  • Eastern Highland Otomi: “But God isn’t like the lights he made, sometimes they lack light when there is a turning.”
  • Central Mazahua: “But he doesn’t change his thinking like those things that are in heaven change their road. He is always the same gracious person.”

(Source: Ellis Deibler in Notes on Translation July, 1967, p. 5ff.)

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