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To: YHAOS; James C. Bennett
"God knows, the translators had the highest quality material with which to work: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts," [McGrath]

And in all three of these languages "neighbor" means kindred. Only in English it doesn't. And his historical perspective is flawed. KJV translators worked off of Textus Receptus, which was itself translated from a flawed 12th century copy of the Greek Codex Alexandrinus. TR, of course, had numerous errors, was a rather hasty compilation, and in one instances used the Latin Vulgate as the "original" source, retrotranslating it (badly at that) into Greek! A new version of the TR  was issues almost every few years in successions because of all the errata found in previous copies.

Rule #1, on the other hand, required that “The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly called The Bishop’s Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the Truth of the original will permit.” (emphasis mine). So it would seem that these were scholars who could not change scripture “with impunity” in any manner they pleased.

Obviously you are not aware of the numerous Protestant scholars who shortly after the KJV was published began working on the numerous errors and changes of the scriptures. I will be happy to provide you with their names if you so please.

Numerous changes in the Greek manuscripts have been documented, some obviously accidental (such as duplicate verses), but others blatant insertions, or alterations, such as the famous Comma Johanneum,  or Pericope Adulterae, or Mat 24:36 (KJV) where the Son is omitted, or Mark 1:2 (KJV), where written by "Isaiah the prophet" is omitted and substituted with "written in the prophets", or a more serious and sinister alteration in 1 Timothy 3:16 where "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..." the word God was 'created" by a scribe form the Greek word hos (?S), meaning he, was changed to the ligature for God (TS) in contrasting ink! Etc,. etc. etc.

None of this stopped your KJV scholars from propagating this fraud, mainly because they didn't have reliable sources in Greek, but cneturies old copies of copies of copies with lots of errors and alterations.  

1,673 posted on 04/09/2011 1:43:19 AM PDT by kosta50
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To: YHAOS; James C. Bennett
Correction: And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..." the word God was 'created" by a scribe form the Greek word hos (?S), meaning he, was changed to the ligature for God (TS) in contrasting ink! Etc,. etc. etc.

For some reason the Greek text didn't copy and I didn't notice. It should read ΟΣ changed to ΘΣ. Someone simply drew a horizontal line through "O" (in contratsing ink!) to change the word from he (in the original) to a ligature used for God.

1,675 posted on 04/09/2011 11:02:02 AM PDT by kosta50
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