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To: annalex; editor-surveyor; metmom; Dr. Eckleburg; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee
Why do we need translations at all?

"εν τουτω τω σκηνωματι", "in this tabernacle". "Skinoma" is literally "tent", a form of dwelling in liturgical use since Moses. They put manna in there, by the way, in prefigurment of the Catholic tabernacles. There is not shortage of Baptist houses of worship called "tabernacle". Did they, too, name their church after their bodies?

Let's not be silly. I posted verses, and footnotes, from two different Catholic Bibles which you choose to ignore.

2 PETER 1:

RSV St. Ignatius Edition - 13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body, * to arouse you by way of reminder,
14 since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

Nab
13 I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," (8) to stir you up by a reminder,
14 since I know that I will soon have to put it aside, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

Note (8) [13] Tent: a biblical image for transitory human life (Isaiah 38:12 <../isaiah/isaiah38.htm>), here combined with a verb that suggests not folding or packing up a tent but its being discarded in death (cf 2 Cor 5:1-4 <../2corinthians/2corinthians5.htm>).

Perhaps annalex is a more reliable source than official Catholic Bibles.

2,687 posted on 11/19/2010 10:55:39 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: OLD REGGIE

lol. Great find, Old Reggie. Keeping them honest takes effort. 8~)

The peculiar thing about the RCC is that given enough time, it will say anything about everything. It does not believe in absolutes. It is variable and relativistic. Whatever works at the moment in a particular discussion, that is what is asserted.

The end justifies the means, even if that means is something like kissing the Koran or retaining a homosexual priesthood.


2,690 posted on 11/19/2010 11:16:52 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: OLD REGGIE; editor-surveyor; metmom; Dr. Eckleburg; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee
Perhaps annalex is a more reliable source than official Catholic Bibles [that translate "skinoma" "body" rather than tabernacle in 2 Peter 1].

Apparently so, since the Greek original and Douay agree with me. It is a bad practice to translate idiomatically what was mostl likely meant literally; many modern translations do so and they shouldn't.

3,663 posted on 11/30/2010 5:23:57 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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