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To: Ann Archy

When Catholic AND Protestant scholars were translating the Bible in the 16th century they both used the term “napkin” and it would be an error to assume that this returns to a small cloth we place on our laps while eating. It meant TABLECLOTH and that changes the size of the cloth considerably.


37 posted on 03/16/2010 5:18:14 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

The napkin that covered Jesus’s face EXISTS!! There is the SHROUD of Turin AND the Napkin....I think in Portugal or Spain.


38 posted on 03/16/2010 5:20:04 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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