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 12/11/2020 2:14 PM |
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John, the percentage of words in disuse is quite small, however sufficient enough for some to create an issue, yet the main block of the text is understood by a 6 grader and even less.
Quality is the quest.
Any study book has a glossary for difficult words to promote learning.
Modern easy-to-read versions never do that.**** Your quote,
"... I could not grasp nearly all of your post." Are you a teacher in Israel and cannot read these basic things? Your rendering, "But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first!" AV "Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. " |
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| 12/11/2020 12:04 PM |
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John Lee wrote:
... too many liberties, ... if the Old English obscures the meaning and leads to disobedience, I would be happy to use a contemporary paraphrase and walk worthy John, have a thought here,
The 'perversion' you quoted brings God as having a *complaint* with man.
Frankly, John, we put complaints between equals, but we are *accountable* to the mighty God, from the inferior to the superior, which goes beyond having a complain, and this is more highlighted with the rendering "I have against thee ..."In the light of this example we can easily tell which translation is the more accurate and honourable, or which one obscures doctrinal sense? In the gospels Christ 5 times stressed the seriousness of meticulous treatment of his words and the OT and the NT bring condemnation to those adding or detracting from his words.
Curiously, there is only one word supplied in the AV rendering of the passage in question, the word somewhat in v.4, we will let you count how many words are added and substracted in yours. Though scripture's meaning is plain, for deeper things of God, he ordained teachers in the church.
Of course, in an age of individualistic self made men and churches, many discount from such in the fellowship of the saints. |
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| 12/10/2020 7:04 PM |
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John Lee wrote:
I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting. But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches. Observe the number of 'liberties' taken in the text bordering into interpretation rather than translation:"I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent" |
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 12/8/2020 10:15 AM |
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“ Mr. Faulkner ”
If death passed to all humans via Adam, (Rom. 5), we are not condemmed because of our actual sin, say any bad doings done; rather all individuals stand condemned by means of the imputed sin-nature in Adam's sin.
This then makes questionable to sustain that all babes are in heaven, because in Adam they all have inherited death.
It is a matter of election and mercy.
Esau and Jacob were elected from the womb, one unto perdition and the other to obtain mercy, and that before they had done any good or evil.
See, "For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls ... As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. ... I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy."
Out of our human inclination, we may assume God as having mercy of them all, but there might not be a solid biblical base to categorically imply it. |
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