can lay claim to nothing

Spanish translation: no tiene derecho a nada /// solo tiene derecho a /// no puede pretender/aspirar a encontrar nada

08:38 Sep 28, 2012

English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Religion

English term or phrase: can lay claim to nothing

See the necessity of the effectual call. A man cannot go to heaven without it. First, we must be called before we are glorified. Rom 8:80. A man uncalled ***can lay claim to nothing*** in the Bible but threatenings: a man in the state of nature is not fit for heaven, no more than a man in his filth and his rags is fit to come into a king’s presence. A man in his natural state is a God-hater, and is he fit for heaven? Rom 1:10. Will God lay his enemy in his bosom?

Ana Juliá KudoZ activity Questions: 3922 (none open) (22 closed without grading) Answers: 1027 Spain
Local time: 05:22

Spanish translation:no tiene derecho a nada /// solo tiene derecho a /// no puede pretender/aspirar a encontrar nada

Explanation:
Opciones:
- "... no tiene derecho a nada en la Biblia, más que a amenazas"
- "... solo tiene derecho a amenazas en la Biblia"
- "... no puede pretender encontrar nada, más que a amenazas en la Biblia"
- "... no puede aspirar a encontrar nada, más que amenazas en la Biblia"
- "... solo puede aspirar a/pretender encontrar amenazas en la Biblia"

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Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Local time: 05:22

Grading comment

Gracias, Bea.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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4 +1

No puede reclamar nada

Yolanda Isabel Gordillo

4 +1

no tiene derecho a nada /// solo tiene derecho a /// no puede pretender/aspirar a encontrar nada

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro

no recibe mención, consideración (alguna)

Montse P.

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11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

No puede reclamar nada

Explanation:
According to the usual definition:
Lay claim - demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to.
Pienso que "reclamar" en este contexto estaría bien.

Yolanda Isabel Gordillo
United States
Local time: 23:22
Native speaker of: Spanish

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

no tiene derecho a nada /// solo tiene derecho a /// no puede pretender/aspirar a encontrar nada

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Local time: 05:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 1286

Grading comment

Gracias, Bea.

9 hrs confidence:

no recibe mención, consideración (alguna)

Explanation:
En la Biblia, en el sentido que un hombre no llamado o que no escucha la palabra divina, es como si no existiese a efectos de la salvación divina de la que se habla en la Biblia...

Montse P.
Spain
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

Catalan
PRO pts in category: 8

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