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From: sjreeves@eedsp.gatech.edu (Stan Reeves)
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Date: 25 Aug 90 07:56:56 GMT
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You say:

Zondervan (like many other editions) also has the idiotic "words of
Christ in red".  I find it annoying because it's harder to read text
in red.  It makes no sense theologically either.  Are Jesus' words
"more inspired" than the rest of the NT?  It also misrepresents the
original.  There are no quotation marks in Greek.  We have to guess
where the quotations end, and sometimes there are doubts.  Adding
quotation marks at all can be somewhat misleading, but you sort of
have to because that's the way modern English does quotations.  But to
emphasize it by setting the text in red is just plain wrong.  It
emphasizes a distinction not present in the original text.

I say:
Amen to that!  It seems that we'd have to stage a massive boycott
of Bible buying to get the attention of the publishers, but that
doesn't seem like a very good alternative.  :-)  Maybe one day folks
will wake up and realize how silly Red Letter Editions are.

Stan