To: Dr. Eckleburg
In fact, translating into English could be fatal. Catholic priest William Tyndale, wanting "every ployboy to know the Scriptures," translated the Bible into everyday English from the original Greek, bypassing the church-sanctioned Latin Vulgate Going from Greek and Aramaic to Latin and then to English makes the English translations using the Vulgate a translation of a translation, meaning there's even more potential for information and clear meaning to be lost.
It's foolish to take that extra step when the original texts are available to use.
Catholics claim fidelity to the Bible and their church executed someone who adhered to that so that the common man could read it himself.
Nice......
1,420 posted on
04/25/2010 11:25:47 AM PDT by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
Going from Greek and Aramaic to Latin and then to English makes the English translations using the Vulgate a translation of a translation, meaning there's even more potential for information and clear meaning to be lost. It's foolish to take that extra step when the original texts are available to use.
Great point!
Catholics claim fidelity to the Bible and their church executed someone who adhered to that so that the common man could read it himself.
Rome has claimed all sorts of things and then executed those who didn't agree with them.
1,440 posted on
04/25/2010 11:46:36 AM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: metmom
It’s foolish to take that extra step when the original texts are available to use.
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Now, now.
There ya go again, trying to confuse the sheeple with facts.
LOL.
1,656 posted on
04/25/2010 4:46:29 PM PDT by
Quix
(BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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