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To: metmom
"The Catholic church mistranslated Genesis 3:15 and used the personal pronoun *she* instead of *he*."

Does your computer not have a monitor because this oft repeated canard has been refuted ad naseum, yet you apparently failed to see it. Perhaps the problem is with the programming between the keyboard and the chair.

The translation error you attribute to the Church appeared in an early version of the Latin Vulgate due to a Greek to Latin translation error by St. Jerome. It gave rise to some misunderstandings, it was not done to foster them as Tyndale sought to do.

192 posted on 01/03/2011 2:30:57 PM PST by Natural Law (In Hoc Signo Vinces)
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To: Natural Law

You might want to have a look at my post 154, as the Genesis 3:15 situation is actually even more nuanced, and more pro-St. Jerome than normally thought.


275 posted on 01/03/2011 7:08:16 PM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton)
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