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Subject: Re: Paul's words only his alone? - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 04:54:14 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Nov 30 20:54:00 1983


>Remember to look it up yourself in your own Bibles. Never take
someone's word for what the Bible says. Compare translations for
difficult passages.

AMEN.

>Always use a good translation, King James Bible...

Amen once again. But do you really think that KJ, wherein Isaiah's
prophecy is made to look rather better than it is, or in any case
more Christian, by translating "almah" (young woman) as "virgin,"
is a good translation?

(The Hebrew word for "virgin" is "betulah." My ignorance of Hebrew
and its transliteration into the Latin alphabet is quite severe;
I am here relying on an article by Leo Rosten.)

				James Jones