Pilgrim
Puritanboard Commissioner
Regarding Acts 7:38, if I'm not mistaken, Tyndale employed the word "congregation" or "assembly" where the KJV speaks of the "church in the wilderness." "Congregation" is also used in the Geneva Bible.
If I'm not mistaken, one of the mandates from King James I was that "ecclesiastical" words be used, such as church for congregation here, and bishop for overseer.
Besides the ASV of 1901 and the NKJV (which follow the KJV here) the only other translations in Bible Gateway that I see that use "church" are the Phillips paraphrase and the Roman Catholic Douay-Rhiems. (Perhaps not coincidentally, Phillips was an Anglican.) Even the modern Catholic NAB(RE) has "assembly." Other modern translations including the NIV, ESV, NASB, and the CSB have assembly or congregation.
Ekklesia is used to refer to a riot in Ephesus in response to Paul in Acts 19. Surely that wasn't the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If I'm not mistaken, one of the mandates from King James I was that "ecclesiastical" words be used, such as church for congregation here, and bishop for overseer.
Besides the ASV of 1901 and the NKJV (which follow the KJV here) the only other translations in Bible Gateway that I see that use "church" are the Phillips paraphrase and the Roman Catholic Douay-Rhiems. (Perhaps not coincidentally, Phillips was an Anglican.) Even the modern Catholic NAB(RE) has "assembly." Other modern translations including the NIV, ESV, NASB, and the CSB have assembly or congregation.
Ekklesia is used to refer to a riot in Ephesus in response to Paul in Acts 19. Surely that wasn't the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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