: "De cierto, de cierto os digo, que si el grano de trigo no cae en la tierra y muere, queda solo..."
: This is the foundation of Christian salvation—the necessity of a spiritual "second birth". reina valera 1960 amen amen
So the next time you hear someone say, "Why does the Reina Valera 1960 say Amen twice?" don't explain the Greek. Don't cite the manuscripts. Just smile and say: : "De cierto, de cierto os digo, que
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Here’s where it gets interesting. The double Amen in the RV1960 does something no single Amen can do. It creates a cadence .
Not everyone loves the double Amen. Modern Spanish Bibles—the RVC (Reina Valera Contemporánea), the NVI (Nueva Versión Internacional)—dropped it. They call it an "unnecessary duplication" not present in the earliest papyri. And they’re right, text-critically speaking. The oldest Alexandrian manuscripts (Codex Sinaiticus, Vaticanus) usually have a single Amen.
In an age of doubt and nuance, the double Amen feels almost aggressive. It refuses to soften. It will not say "perhaps" or "in my opinion." It says: This is true. And this is also true. Twice.