15th Sunday Ordinary Time – “The evil one snatches away…”
Translating Matthew 13:19 opens a can of worms. How ought we translate the Greek, ponerós? Here’s what the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) does with it in the context of the Parable of the Sower. The NRSV translates the word as “evil one” in a couple other places, too. Yet, ponerós seems to refer to realities other than […]