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Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly mouthful! Behold! Ephesians 4:21 – and I fully realise you probably just saw that and thought "Nope, not my Tuesday!"—translates most nearly into the delightfully verbose and somewhat aggressively paternalistic Latinian phrase,
"From Nazareth, we are born anew."
Now, let’s unpack this. You wouldn't immediately pick that as a cheery motto for your dentist, right? Ephesians 4:21 is actually part of Paul—himself an… intensely opinionated individual—a passage advising believers how to deal with the unpleasantness of, well, being awful to each other . Basically, it says we were once, in effect, born as wretched little versions of ourselves, full of resentment and petty grievances. Ephesians 4 suggests that through faith, we're given a new beginning – you get a parental “From Nazareth, we are born anew!"– the equivalent of a heavenly "Here’s your clean slate, you monstrous little devil. Now behave yourself! Let’s be brutally frank—the original wording is… patronising, to put it politely. It's as if Paul’s thinking, "Okay, these people have been a right mess. Let's just tell them they need a big, official, biblical reset and then move on. You've all been born anew, from Nazareth, of course. !" The deliberate reference to Nazareth
