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To: mnehring
..and yet you expect then to trust your ‘scholarship’. I see a lot of people here going back to the original language, yet you are relying on your belief in one specific translation.

The KJV translators used the 'original language' to translate the KJV...

225 posted on 11/29/2010 5:12:26 PM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool

Then how come the original language shows those two instances being two completely different terms, yet they are translated the same?

The understanding of ancient languages evolves and grows over time and it illuminates a lot more of the text as our knowledge grows, especially adding in cultural contexts.


226 posted on 11/29/2010 5:26:14 PM PST by mnehring
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To: Iscool; mnehring
iscool: The KJV translators used the 'original language' to translate the KJV...

Was that Quenya or Sindarin ? /sarc
269 posted on 11/30/2010 1:45:23 AM PST by Cronos (Et Verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis (And the word was made flesh, and dwelt amonst us))
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