“Holy Ones” and “Saints” in the LSB
00:00:00.000 | Josiah Y asked this very good question.
00:00:03.840 | What is the LSB's rationale in sometimes using saints
00:00:07.920 | and sometimes holy one or holy ones?
00:00:12.600 | It's actually the same Greek word.
00:00:15.720 | Well, I think if you trace through there,
00:00:17.600 | the times that we use saints, it refers to God's people.
00:00:22.360 | The times we use holy one or holy ones,
00:00:26.620 | it refers to the Lord himself as the holy one
00:00:30.680 | or angels as holy ones.
00:00:33.540 | It's the same Greek word, but to distinguish between them,
00:00:37.520 | when it's hagioi is the word,
00:00:40.600 | when it's believers, we call them saints.
00:00:44.400 | When it's I am the holy one, God says,
00:00:47.760 | we refer to him as the holy one.
00:00:50.160 | And when the angels are referred to as holy ones,
00:00:54.000 | we kept that translation,
00:00:56.120 | But when it refers to believers, we used saints.