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To: SoothingDave
Are these versions no longer approved?

Luke 1:34

RSV And Mary said to the angel, "How shall this be, since I have no husband?"

NASB Mary said to the angel, ""How [22] can this be, since I [23] am a virgin?''

They certainly shed a different light to the "I intend to remain a life-long virgin" question.
1,237 posted on 10/19/2001 9:44:36 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE
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To: OLD REGGIE
Are these versions no longer approved?

They certainly shed a different light to the "I intend to remain a life-long virgin" question.

There is an RSV Catholic version which is approved. I don't know about the NASB. The point is that even if the translation is approved it doesn't make it authoritative. You have to go to the original for that. A translation which says "I don't have a husband" is not actually translating the Greek, but rather translating the "idea" into a modern representation. This is surely not the type of text to make such important judgments from.

This is why one person sitting down and making so much from what the Bible "says" is dangerous.

1,252 posted on 10/19/2001 10:21:10 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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