An Etymological Discussion of Ancient Texts

[counterintelligence]

https://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/8-33.htm

This translation is in error.  Acts 8:33

When speaking about the crucifixion, the judgement didn't go away, justice was done away with.  They did away with justice and crucified Him.  If they did away with judgement, they wouldn't have crucified Him.

The word for judgement and justice is the same key word.  It could mean either one leaving an ambiguous situation when doing translation.  We have to understand what the intent is for this to read correctly.

[Oldcynic]

https://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/8-33.htm

This translation is in error.  Acts 8:33

When speaking about the crucifixion, the judgement didn't go away, justice was done away with.  They did away with justice and crucified Him.  If they did away with judgement, they wouldn't have crucified Him.

The word for judgement and justice is the same key word.  It could mean either one leaving an ambiguous situation when doing translation.  We have to understand what the intent is for this to read correctly.

Good find.
We speak to each other within one English language but still don't get it right!

[counterintelligence]

https://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/8-33.htm

This translation is in error.  Acts 8:33

When speaking about the crucifixion, the judgement didn't go away, justice was done away with.  They did away with justice and crucified Him.  If they did away with judgement, they wouldn't have crucified Him.

The word for judgement and justice is the same key word.  It could mean either one leaving an ambiguous situation when doing translation.  We have to understand what the intent is for this to read correctly.

Good find.
We speak to each other within one English language but still don't get it right!

Most likely I may already have this in my not unusual thread somewhere.

[Danfromthehills]

[counterintelligence]

Go to a sin-a-gog to go sin after the sun goes down.

The moon is associated with the lunar calendar (Jews) and the sun is associated with the solar calendar (Gentiles).

[FlyoverCountry]

Twit Link

https://x.com/ronin19217435/status/1873336395886112778

[Oldcynic]

I recently "discovered" Jordan Maxwell's videos and lectures.  He was a friend of Sitchen.  Good stuff.

"Rome and white men" are responsible for our religions."

[Danfromthehills]

I recently "discovered" Jordan Maxwell's videos and lectures.  He was a friend of Sitchen.  Good stuff.

"Rome and white men" are responsible for our religions."

[SlowLoris]

Twit Link

https://x.com/ronin19217435/status/1873336395886112778

While interesting, the video is not exactly accurate. King James saw a need to appease the people and unify them and provide them with a printed copy in English. It was a bold political move.


When King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1603, he was well aware that he was entering a sticky situation.

For one thing, his immediate predecessor on the throne, Queen Elizabeth I, had ordered the execution of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, who had represented a Catholic threat to Elizabeth’s Protestant reign. And even though Elizabeth had established the supremacy of the Anglican Church (founded by her father, King Henry VIII), its bishops now had to contend with rebellious Protestant groups like the Puritans and Calvinists, who questioned their absolute power.

By the time James took the throne, many people in England at the time were hearing one version of the Bible when they went to church, but were reading from another when they were at home. While one version of Christianity’s holy texts—the so-called Bishops’ Bible—was read in churches, the most popular version among Protestant reformers in England at the time was the Geneva Bible, which had been created in that city by a group of Calvinist exiles during the bloody reign of Elizabeth’s half-sister, Mary I.

“Printing had already been invented, and made copies relatively cheap compared to hand-done copies,” says Carol Meyers, a professor of religious studies at Duke University. “The translation into English, the language of the land, made it accessible to all those people who could read English, and who could afford a printed Bible.”

Whereas before, the Bible had been the sole property of the Church, now more and more people could read it themselves. Not only that, but the language they read in the King James Bible was English, unlike anything they had read before. With its poetic cadences and vivid imagery, the KJV sounded to many like the voice of God himself.

For the new king, the Geneva Bible posed a political problem, since it contained certain annotations questioning not only the bishop’s power but his own. So in 1604, when a Puritan scholar proposed the creation of a new translation of the Bible at a meeting at a religious conference at Hampton Court, James surprised him by agreeing.

Over the next seven years, 47 scholars and theologians worked to translate the different books of the Bible: the Old Testament from Hebrew, the New Testament from Greek and the Apocrypha from Greek and Latin. Much of the resulting translation drew on the work of the Protestant reformer William Tyndale, who had produced the first New Testament translation from Greek into English in 1525 but was executed for heresy less than a decade later.

https://www.history.com/news/king-james-...st-popular

[DaJavoo]

I study from the NASB ~ 1973 edition.  I find it very accurate, re: translation.

However, the KJV is one for memorization.  It's problems with inaccuracies are well known and not problematic.  

One of the best things about it is that it doesn't change with new editions. 

I've had audio Bible cassette tapes, DVDs, MP3 and now use apps for phone/tablet.

I enjoy daily doses of the KJV with Alexander Scourby's audio rendition.  So relaxing.