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To: kosta50; annalex; Forest Keeper; P-Marlowe; Kolokotronis; jo kus; redgolum; xzins

Oh, I get it now. I see where my mistake was. I was reading Matthew from the KJV instead of reading it from a Herrew/Aramaic translation into Greek and then into English. When we do that we get,

"And the angel appeared unto Joseph and said, 'I got some good news for you and bad news.' And Joseph said, 'give me the good news first.' 'Right,' the angel said, You're going to marry a young virgin but she is pregnant'. 'That's good news', Joseph asked? 'Yup, that's the good news', the angel replied. 'If that's the good news what's the bad', asked Joseph. She's going to be an eternal virgin and you can never have sexual relations with her nor can you ever touch her since she is holy'. 'Why didn't you tell me this before I got betrothed, whatever that means?' asked Joseph. 'Cause we wanted to see if you would go through with the betrothal before we told you about the plan. It's a free-will kind of thing.' said the angel, 'very hush-hush.'"

There, I think I got it now.


1,291 posted on 12/13/2006 6:21:48 AM PST by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan; kosta50; annalex; Forest Keeper; P-Marlowe; jo kus; redgolum; xzins
"There, I think I got it now."

No wonder poor +Joseph looks so down in the dumps (lower left with the Devil talking to him)!


1,299 posted on 12/13/2006 6:40:03 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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