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To: Elsie
Then they should be 'translated' the same way each time.
If they aren't; SOMEONE along the way is making a judgment call.

Sure. That's the unavoidable hazard of the person who must be either a translatong interpreter or an interpreting translator, It's not an eviable position in which the person who really seeks the Truth rther than personal fame finds him/herself.

The old missionary, Fred Wittman, has done exactly what you postulate as the way translation should be done. One volume of his translation of the New Testament has been published, "The Gospels: A Precise Translation" (click here), and it (the nicely bound APT volume) is free to you if you just notify the web site administrator. Its date of shipping depends on when the organization, Happy Heralds, Inc. receives the needed funds from its donors. Thousands of copies have been sent out from a debt-free site (Rom. 13:8; Matt. 0:8; Gen. 2:16; Rev. 22:17).

This volume has many helpful features. There is a glossary of the Greek words, an appendix that gives the chronology of Jesus' ministry, center columns on each page giving hints as to particular uses of the verbs and prepositions, a notation on each page giving the dates in which the action is taking place, etc.

Its underlying Greek Texts are the Scrivener's Textus Receptus and the more recent Robinson & Pierpont Byzantine/Majority Greek Text. As the author Robert Martin has pointed out, the reading is kind of wooden and harder to read for the beginner, but it is a great supplement to understanding troublesome passages of the KJV, for Bible students pastors, and missionaries.

Let me encourage you and everyone here to apply for a copy. Dr. Wittman is finishing the last touches of preparing the second volume of the remaining books of the New Testament. But he is getting pretty old, his wife just died a few months ago, and his health is failing. Y'all could pray for him and his work. He is a servant of God who has been working for the Lord faithfully every day since his youth, with an amazing body of publications. He himself deliberately has no presence on the internet, not even email, and thus has never had any viruses to make his old Windows 3.11 operating system stumble. But his creation Happy Heralds, Inc. does, and is daily overseen by a webmaster, who is also the president of the corporation.

But, contrary to your hypothesis, the translation of the Greek is context-sensitive as is every human language. And you, even if you used only one language with which to communicate, experientially do the same when your alter ego silently in your cranium renders the words you hear or read to have the sense to your inner being of what the person communicating to you seems to be projecting. In fact, one of the quirks of your FR responses is that you seek other meanings for what a commenter writes, sometimes to his/her dismay, or to portray one's vagaries. But the APT very intentionally tries to use the words repeatedly in exactly the same sense that you seem to think they ought to. I use this volume to help me stay consistent and true to what the Spirit says in the Inspired Word when I see that a particular version fails. Note that the Wittman rendering calls itself A Precise Translation, not The Precise Translation.

It is of note that, despite what you have suggested here, your handling of the Bible tends to go the other way, by using versions that are not designed to be literally consistent.

FWIW.

Not pejorative or condemning, just an informed observation.
Respectfully . . . imardmd1

362 posted on 04/21/2018 8:36:10 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1
It is of note that, despite what you have suggested here, your handling of the Bible tends to go the other way, by using versions that are not designed to be literally consistent.

FWIW.

Not pejorative or condemning, just an informed observation.

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Which one of the five; if any; are you?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Only_movement#Variations

365 posted on 04/22/2018 3:29:48 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: imardmd1

Are you familiar with Young’s Literal Translation? I find it very useful.


367 posted on 04/22/2018 8:52:09 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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