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To: GiovannaNicoletta

GiovannaNicoletta recommended a link in which is to found this statement:

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. (Zechariah 12:10)
(In the Hebrew language, this verse reveals an astonishing secret. After the phrase “They will look on me” … it contains two untranslated letters, an aleph and a tau. They are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. So the verse literally reads, “They will look on me, the Aleph and the Tau …” In Genesis 1:1 the same two Hebrew letters show up after the phrase “In the beginning, God” … So it reads “In the beginning God, the Aleph and the Tau” …

This statement is factually untrue. In both Zechariah 12:10 and Genesis 1:1 the “aleph” and “tav” (not “tau,” that would be Greek) are not what the author claims, not remotely. They spell a word, a word that is, yes, untranslated, but filled with meaning. The word is a preposition indicating that what follows is the definite direct object of the preceding verb. What the author of the article says about it is sheer nonsense.

This is a good example of destroying one’s argument by erroneous scholarship.


163 posted on 07/03/2010 2:43:14 PM PDT by Belteshazzar
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To: Belteshazzar
Yawn.

I've never found Dr. Ice to be in Biblical error in any of his writings.

However, I have been treated to endless twisting and denial and allegorizing and redefining of Scripture by replacement theologians, preterists, amillennialists, and so forth and so on.

So you'll forgive me if I take the word of the writer who I have never found to be Scripturally wrong.

165 posted on 07/03/2010 2:50:02 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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