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To: wideawake
So I return to the point: investing the word "dispensation" with a meaning that is alien to the original Greek and which was not intended by the KJV translators is a misstep.

There is no 'original Greek' in the Textus Receptus...You may be referring to the Catholic's Septuagint but that is by no means the Textus Receptus...

266 posted on 08/02/2006 1:53:22 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool
There is no 'original Greek' in the Textus Receptus...

I think that you are a little confused here. The Textus Receptus is the Greek text of the New Testament accepted by the Reformers as the most authentic text of the New Testament.

You may be referring to the Catholic's Septuagint but that is by no means the Textus Receptus...

The Septuagint is not a Catholic text but a Jewish translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament only) into Greek. Only the Eastern Orthodox churches accept the Septuagint as normative.

And again, since the Septuagint contains no New Testament material at all, it is impossible for me to confuse it with the Textus Receptus of the New Testament.

Does that clarify the matter at all?

I reiterate - the text I translated is the Greek Textus Receptus, the same one used by the KJV translators. It is available in an inexpensive edition from the Trinitarian Bible Society - a conservative KJV-promoting Reformed Bible society.

298 posted on 08/02/2006 5:07:13 PM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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