Raising a Girl (image)

Painting by Wang Suda 王肅達 (1910-1963),
Copyright by the Catholic University Peking, China

Text under painting translated from Literary Chinese into English:
Raising a Girl
Proof that Jesus is the true God

Image taken from Chinese Christian Posters . For more information on the “Ars Sacra Pekinensis” school of art, see this article , for other artworks of that school in TIPs, see here.

complete verse (Luke 8:54)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 8:54:

  • Noongar: “But Jesus took her hand and called out, ‘Stand up, child!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “After that, Yesus held the hand of that child, and he said to her: ‘Get up, child!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “Then Isa took the hand of the child and he said in a loud voice, ‘Girl, get up.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus went near to the child, he took her by the hand, and he called to her, and he said, ‘Girl, get up.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But as for Jesus, he took-the young-lady -by-the-hand and said to her, ‘My child, get-up.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But Jesus took hold of that child’s hand and said, ‘Daughter, get up now!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Translation commentary on Luke 8:54

Exegesis:

autos de ‘but he,’ emphatic.

kratēsas tēs cheiros autēs ‘after seizing her hand,’ or ‘taking her by the hand.’

krateō (also 24.16) ‘to seize,’ ‘to grasp,’ with the genitive of the part grasped.

ephōnēsen legōn ‘he called out, saying.’

hē pais, egeire ‘child, get up.’ hē pais is a nominative with the force of a vocative.

Translation:

Taking her by the hand he called, saying, or in co-ordinated clauses, ‘he took her by the hand (or, took hold of her hand) and (he) called (or, said loudly, or, said in a loud voice).’ Her may have to be specified, e.g. ‘the child/girl,’ ‘the dead one’ (Javanese).

Child, here in the vocative; some renderings used are, ‘girl (lit, woman/female)’ (Balinese, employing a term for addressing a female person in a friendly way), or, a kind of name-substitute used by parents to their young daughter (Toraja-Sa’dan), or a term of endearment for little girls (Cuyono). Sometimes a pronoun of the second person is added, better to bring out the vocative force (e.g. Batak Toba).

Arise, or, ‘get up,’ ‘stand up.’

Quoted with permission from Reiling, J. and Swellengrebel, J.L. A Handbook on the Gospel of Luke. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1971. For this and other handbooks for translators see here . Make sure to also consult the Handbook on the Gospel of Mark for parallel or similar verses.