“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us.” (verse 13) This is one of the most diff cult verses in the New Testament. How do we translate it in order for it to make sense to us today?

There’s a marvelously funny story about translation that comes out of Texas. There was a certain Mexican bank robber by the name of Jorge Rodriguez, who operated along the Texas border around the turn of the century. He was so successful in his forays into Texas, that the Texas rangers put a whole extra posse along the Rio Grande to try and stop him. Late one afternoon, one of those special rangers saw Jorge slipping across the river, and trailed him as he returned to his home village. He watched as Jorge mingled with the people in the square around the town well, and then w…