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These were the first Spanish Bible translations officially made and approved by the Church in 300 years. The Biblia Torres Amat appeared in 1825. Traditionalist Catholics consider this to be the best Spanish translation because it is a direct translation from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate, like the English language Douay-Rheims Bible.
[22] [23] Also according to some traditions, Salome was the sister of Mary, Jesus' mother, [23] [24] making Salome Jesus' aunt, and her sons John the Apostle and James were Jesus' cousins. [25] John the Apostle is traditionally believed to be one of two disciples (the other being Andrew) recounted in John 1:35–39, who upon hearing the Baptist ...
Although neither Hebrew nor Aramaic had a word for "cousin", both customarily spoke of a cousin as a "son of an uncle" (Heb. ben dod; Aram. bar dad) [8] and the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, never translates either expression as "brother" or "sister". [8]
The most important Harkleian manuscript is kept at Trinity College in Dublin. Around 500, a translation was made into Syro-Palestinian (the Aramaic-Galilean dialect spoken by Jesus). It contains 2 Peter, 2 John, 3 John, Jude and Revelation, and represents the Caesarean text-type and is completely independent of other Syriac translations.
The Joseph Smith Translation, as excerpted in the Book of Moses, states that Enos led the people of God to a promised land, which he named Cainan, after his son. [ 11 ] Enos, son of Seth is distinct from Enos, son of Jacob , the Nephite to whom the Book of Enos is ascribed, who is the son of Jacob, son of Lehi .
John is considered to have been exiled to Patmos during a time of persecution under the Roman rule of Domitian in the late 1st century. Revelation 1:9 states: "I, John, both your brother and companion in tribulation... was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ."
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Clopas (Ancient Greek: Κλωπᾶς, Klōpas; Hebrew: possibly חלפי , Ḥalfi; Aramaic: חילפאי, Ḥilfài) is a figure of early Christianity. The name appears in the New Testament, specifically in John 19:25: Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.