Paul (icon)

Following is a Georgian Orthodox icon of Paul the Apostle from the 14th century (located in the Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi).

Orthodox Icons are not drawings or creations of imagination. They are in fact writings of things not of this world. Icons can represent our Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the Saints. They can also represent the Holy Trinity, Angels, the Heavenly hosts, and even events. Orthodox icons, unlike Western pictures, change the perspective and form of the image so that it is not naturalistic. This is done so that we can look beyond appearances of the world, and instead look to the spiritual truth of the holy person or event. (Source )

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Paul

The term that is transliterated as “Paul” in English is translated in American Sign Language with a sign that signifies the many letters he wrote. (Source: RuthAnna Spooner, Ron Lawer)


“Paul” in American Sign Language, source: Deaf Harbor

In Spanish Sign Language it is translated with a sign depicting putting away a sword, referring to his conversion from a persecutor of Christians to a Christian leader. (Source: Steve Parkhurst)


“Paul (and Saul)” in Spanish Sign Language, source: Sociedad Bíblica de España

Click or tap here to see a short video clip about Paul (source: Bible Lands 2012)

See also Paul (icon).

complete verse (Acts 27:33)

Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 27:33:

  • Uma: “When it was almost sunrise, Paulus said to them: ‘You all must eat! For fourteen days you have just been waiting to see what will happen. You didn’t eat.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “When it was almost day, Paul begged all of them telling them to eat. He said, ‘For fourteen days now you have worried/has been your trouble. You have not eaten anything.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when it was almost morning, Paul begged all of them that they should eat. He said, ‘It’s been fourteen days that we have had to endure being afraid and nothing has entered our stomachs.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “When it was dawning, Pablo insisted that they eat saying, ‘Here it has been two weeks with you not eating properly, because you have been sidetracked/distracted by your fear.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “When it was getting toward dawn now, Pablo tried-to-persuade that crowd that hopefully they would now eat. He said, ‘It would be good if you would eat now, for look here, this is the fourteenth day that you haven’t eaten. You have been bothered/preoccupied by this bad weather.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Translation commentary on Acts 27:33

This verse begins with an unusual construction (literally “until when”), rendered in most translations by “when.” The Good News Translation has made this subordinate temporal clause into a coordinate clause: day was about to come. The equivalent of this clause in some languages is “it was just beginning to be light” or “the day was not far away.”

On the phrase eat some food see verse 21.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .