There is no excuse for rendering anthropos as 'self' In joel 2:28 (niv), he prophesied and afterward, i will pour out my spirit on all people It means 'man' in the sense of 'humanity'
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Our old humanity (the humanity of the first man, adam) is crucified with christ
To translate it as 'self' is a philosophical interpretation, not disciplined translation.
Bamidbar 4:35 "from the age of שְׁלשִׁ֤ים thirty שָׁנָה֙ years and upward, until the. The service of the tabernacle was to be done by the tribe of levi What was the required age of the priests that served in the temple Numbers 4:47 (kjv) they counted or numbered the levites
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation, but those.
