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| Theodore Letis |
Theodore P. Letis
“Moreover, those clergy who have obediently fallen in line with the New Tradition have sent a clear signal to their parishioners and colleagues that, unlike William Tyndale, they no longer find the verbal view of inspiration compelling.”
The Ecclesiastical Text: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority, and the Popular Mind, 1997.
H. L. Menken, Famous Journalist and Agnostic
“It is the most beautiful of all the translations of the Bible; indeed, it is probably the most
beautiful piece of writing in all the literature of the world. Many attempts have been made to purge it of its errors and obscurities. An English Revised Version was published in 1885 and an American Revised Version in 1901, and since then many learned but misguided men have sought to produce translations that should be mathematically accurate, and in the plain speech of everyday. But the Authorized Version has never yielded to any of them, for it is palpably and overwhelmingly better than they are, just as it is better than the Greek New Testament, or the Vulgate, or the Septuagint. Its English is extraordinarily simple, pure, eloquent, lovely. It is a mine of lordly and incomparable poetry, at once the most stirring and the most touching ever heard of.”—H. L. Mencken
My Amusing Thought
I have heard many theologues defend bad paraphrases gleaned from a butchered Nestle-Aland Greek text.
They are always so haughty. Their paraphrases (not qualifying as actual translations) are superior to the King James because they are superbly clear in their language.
Answer - That is why they change their wording every few months? They do not even wait for a new edition. Changes happen more often that the stipulations on our online credit accounts.
Some faux-conservative Lutherans say in a superior tone, "I do not use the NIV. I use the ESV."
Answer - No one should use the NIV, but the ESV is simply another flavor of the Marxist National Council of Churches' apostate RSV.
"Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus are the oldest Bibles in the world!"
Answer - If they believe leather can burn and the oldest Bible was used to heat up the library in a monastery dedicated to ancient manuscripts, then it is no surprise that they rely on Vaticanus, which comes from the Mother of All Frauds - the Pope. When was the last time Lutheran "scholars" said a good word about Luther or a bad word about the Antichrist?
I will be posting more KJV quotations from The King James Version: Apostolic Texts, Precise Translation versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translation. Look for them in the masthead or in the book.
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| Voelz, the grammarian, produced the gigantic Mark commentary - based on Vaticanus! - at Concordia Publishing House, CPH. Seminex won and their leader sits on his throne at the Purple Palace, worshiped as a god. |
