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To: imardmd1
My preference is the KJV...

All of us old coots like our first language; but many have learned, over the years, that other languages have a sweetness and a purity to them as well.


"You'll get my KJV 23 Psalm when you can pry it from my cold, dead fingers!"

164 posted on 04/19/2018 5:34:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
It isn't the language mellifluosity, it's whether the translator(s) use it to convey the exact sense of the original as the one Holy Spirit gave it in, without change, addition, deletion, or embroidery.

"Teaching them to observeG5083 all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." (Mt. 28:20 AV)

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Strong's Number G5083

τηρέω
tēreō
tay-reh'-o

Strong's Definition:
From τηρός teros (a watch; perhaps akin to G2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly
by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping;
and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), that is, to note (a prophecy;
figuratively to fulfil a command); by implication to detain (in custody; figuratively to maintain);
by extension to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively to keep unmarried): -
hold fast, keep (-er), (ob-, pre-, re) serve, watch.

Thayer's Definition:
1) to attend to carefully, take care of
. . 1a) to guard
. . 1b) metaphorically to keep, one in the state in which he is
. . 1c) to observe
. . 1d) to reserve: to undergo something
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from teros (a watch, perhaps akin to G2334)

Many modern Bible versions fail in translation method to adhere to this single command that is superlative to all others of Christ's commands. All modern versions fail if one counts that their underlying texts are the critical/eclectic Greek texts synthesized from the corrupted Sinaitic, Vatican, and Alexandrinian codices and thus unacceptable.

171 posted on 04/19/2018 6:15:13 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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