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To: Colonel_Flagg

You are right, but please note that I was referring to people who may have difficulties—that is, people who aren’t all that well educated, or may like my father speak good but not Shakespearean/Jacobean English, or young people who are the victims of our public school system. And not everyone is reading Scripture in order to study it seriously. They’re trying to get the point. The ornate language dismays them. My son the Marine is not going to wade through the thees and thous, unfortunately. (Public school. What can I say?—I did my best.)

My late mother had a fabulous Bible that had two side-by-side translations on each page, so if you opened it you would have four translations to compare. It was fascinating. Bible Gateway.com is a modern equivalent but far clunkier.

One great option for someone who is interested in studying but is not an academic is to pull up Lexilogos from Tufts University. You can plug NT verses into it and get a word-by-word analysis of the Greek. Endlessly rich and deep.


33 posted on 03/14/2014 9:55:11 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: ottbmare

I understand. The clarification is useful though and I thank you for it. My experience has been that the more people read Scripture, once they ‘get the point’ as you put it, they tend to want a deeper reading. There are some great study aids — both for the KJV and for other translations — that should make that possible for most anyone.

My favorite online resource is blueletterbible.org. A plethora of translations and links to studies and even sermons on just about any passage you can name.


38 posted on 03/14/2014 9:58:16 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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