I don't know, does it imply succession? Sounds like you are flapping your jaws without really knowing what you are talking about in order to be inflammatory.
I do like to quote from the King James on this one because I like to have fun with the people who seem to think that the KJ is the version of the Bible that descended from Heaven at Pentecost.
It's still a better version of the Bible than the versions descended from the wildly inaccurate Vulgate.
I don't know, does it imply succession? Sounds like you are flapping your jaws without really knowing what you are talking about in order to be inflammatory.
Can you name an office that doesn't have successors? Besides, the context makes it clear, since the passage says, "Let another take his office."
I do like to quote from the King James on this one because I like to have fun with the people who seem to think that the KJ is the version of the Bible that descended from Heaven at Pentecost.
It's still a better version of the Bible than the versions descended from the wildly inaccurate Vulgate.
Which brings us to a problem with the unbiblical doctrine of Sola Scriptura which is that the Bible doesn't tell us which version of the Bible is authorized or accurate.
Additionally, the whole notion of Sola Scriptura would have seemed a bit absurd in the centuries preceding the invention of the printing press since a hand-copied Bible in those days cost the equivalent of three years wages (or maybe the equivalent of $100k today).