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The Rendering of Easter in Acts

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 20, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 20.

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The Rendering of Easter in Acts

A CORRESPONDENT requests an explanation of the use of the word Easter in Acts 12:4. That the rendering here given is a wrong translation, there is general agreement among Bible scholars. In every other instance the original Greek word is translated passover, and it should have been thus rendered in this scripture. Recognizing this inconsistency, the translators of the Revised Version, in both the English and American revisions, have rendered the word passover instead of Easter. The older translations, including the King James Version, show the bias of religious thought,—influenced by the established custom in the church of celebrating Easter, a union of the early Pasch with the heathen festival of Ostàra, or Easter.