Carpe diem returning to the normal and normative behaviors of Mesopotamian society." In Horace, the phrase is part of the longer , which can be translated as "Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow (the future)". The ode says that the future is unforeseen and that one should not leave to chance future happenings, but rather one should do all one can today to make one's future better. This phrase is usually understood against Horace's Epicurean background. The meaning of as used by Horace is not to ignore the future, but rather not to trust that everything is going to
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures Ankerberg cite several examples wherein they consider the NWT to support theological views overriding appropriate translation. In 2004, Jason BeDuhn examined New Testament passages that he believed "bias is most likely to interfere with translation" from nine of "the Bibles most widely in use in the English-speaking world". For each passage, he compared the Greek text with the renderings of each English translation, and looked for biased attempts to change the meaning. BeDuhn states that the "New World Translation" was "not bias free", adding that whilst the general public and various biblical scholars might assume that the differences in the