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Posted 03-08-2008 at 10:06 AM by jaybird0827
The following message was posted by the Rev. Matthew Winzer, Minister, Australian Free Church, in the thread, What text is the NKJ based on?
The emphasis is mine. Here is the passage that was referenced:
That is as strong an argument as ever I have heard for the principle of formal equivalence translation. Those who deviate, or have deviated from that principle and claim to have offered us the Word of God will have a lot to answer for.
It therefore remains my belief that the Authorized Version remains the best and most faithful English translation of the Bible that we currently have, and that the probability is very low that the church will soon produce anything to surpass it.
Thank you, Rev. Winzer, for such an elegant statement of the real issue that ought to drive the science of textual criticism.
Quote:
The LXX is a complex subject to go into, but certainly Heb. 3:7-11 is pertinent to this discussion. Here the reader's attention is drawn to the words of the Holy Spirit which were originally written in Hebrew and were being quoted in Greek. For these to be the words of the Holy Spirit in Greek or English, it must be a received principle that inspiration is not washed out in translation.
Quote:
7: Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8: Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10: Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11: So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
-- Hebrews 3:7-11, KJV
8: Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10: Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11: So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
-- Hebrews 3:7-11, KJV
It therefore remains my belief that the Authorized Version remains the best and most faithful English translation of the Bible that we currently have, and that the probability is very low that the church will soon produce anything to surpass it.
Thank you, Rev. Winzer, for such an elegant statement of the real issue that ought to drive the science of textual criticism.
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