Google has done it again! Google translator now supports Latin to English! It is still in "Alpha" stage, but for those of us who know absolutely zero Latin and try to read older commentators (like Henry Alford) who quote Latin and give no translation, this still helps immeasurably to at least give a partial sense of what its talking about rather than being completely in the dark.
In case you didn't know, there is a wonderful website called The Biblical Training Institute, headed up by everybody's favorite Greek instructor: William Mounce.
John Starke, Help! I’m Looking for Jesus in the OT – The Gospel Coalition Blog
OT commentaries do not help much in pointing forward to Christ. To where, then, can we look? Keller and Clowney suggest: "Use the Scripture indexes of New Testament commentaries and biblical theologies."
Google Dictionary is a pretty useful tool. I've been using it for translating English <-> Chinese and it has some nice features. It gives you Chinese-English definitions along with Chinese-Chinese definitions. It also gives you some sample sentences to make sure you get the right usage.
Google Translate is also a lot more helpful than other translating tools out there for translating whole phrases. It does more than look up word by word. There is a video you can watch that tells you more about it also.
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