In God’s great plan for the spread of the gospel, Roman roads were built and Koine or common Greek had become the English of the day.
People still had their own languages but Greek could be used anywhere around the Mediterranean area.
Now Greek is a very precise language with many tenses and even the definite article has over twenty different forms.
There was one weakness though, the original manuscripts were written in capitals; the cursives were first used a few hundred years later. This made the translators choice of capital or cursive debatable ie Spirit or spirit, God or god.
When the definite article is used it focuses the thing that follows, for example they had many gods but for God the Bible writers would write “ho theos” – the god or as we would say – God.
All of the translators are well aware of this but unfortunately they aren’t consistent. If you have an Interlinear Bible then you can see that the definite article is often put in where it isn’t and left out where it is. It is to make the translation more readable, they say. But it changes the meaning and often the truth too.
If theos means God and ho theos means God then when over eighty times in the New Testament Jesus is called – the son of the man in the Greek but is by tradition always translated as – the son of man. I ask why.
Was it not code speak for – the son of David?
Blind Bartimaeus cracked the code.