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To: John Leland 1789
Being obtuse is a choice, I suppose. Ask yourself, what is the likeleyhood that anyone reading Luke in KJV will conclude that Elizabeth and Mary were not necessarily close relatives, even first cousins, but distant relatives, or not even relatives at all?
5,618 posted on 05/17/2008 8:44:57 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

The point you are making is that people should not jumpt to conclusions of interpretation without studying a word. I would ask you if that is not why you like to study Greek.

My point is that often, the correct definition of the English word is available, the word is correct, and it can be proven without going to a Greek text. And helping people understand that will also help them in their knowlege of their own language, which is not what the public schools do anymore.

I have been in the mountains of the Carolinas and W Virginia where people call each other “cousin,” thinking that they are probably related in some manner somewhere along the line (but wish they weren’t). They know full well that “cousin” doesn’t always mean son-of-my-mother’s-sister, etc.

Now I’m wondering why the moderator of this thread get’s on my case but doesn’t get on yours.


5,622 posted on 05/17/2008 9:00:21 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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