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Originally Posted by bbyrd009
Well, that's the advantage of having multiple early copies, the record survives--but see that a good translation in 1690 just cannot be defined the same with the current idiom as a starting point for many concepts in the Bible, leading to an answer for you, I think. The Word will have to have MSS documentation, clear and concise, like "the earth became void" was, to me at least; and then tested. While this may sound like a descent into ?, it is actually easier than ever before in history! Only takes several clicks, now?
Man, just go in to "lexicon" on a problematic Bible verse, on a Bible site, and not emerge with a fuller understanding...IMO.
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I mostly agree. We bought a 1560 Geneva Bible with the original footnotes. It is somewhat harder to read because during that day, some letters of the English alphabet were not yet established, such as the "J", the "I" is used for the "J". the "U" and the "V" is interchangeable and the "S" is used mainly at the end of a plural word, but not within the word. Something that looks somewhat like an "f", without the slash through, was used as an "s"
I definitely see changes of words such as in ACTS 12:4
And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
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Acts 12:4) (KJV)
And when he had caught him, he put him in prison, and deliuered him to foure quaternions of souldiers to be kept, intending after the Passeouer to bring him foorth to the people.
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Acts 12:4)(Geneva 1599)
(My computer Bible reference only has the 1599 version on it. A year later from 1560, they corrected many of the spellings in the Bible)
Not intending to start a new squabble over the holidays that Christians celebrate, but I wonder if King James (or his translators) had the word "Easter" inserted to replace the word "Passover" in the original text of the Geneva Bible?
Easter is a pagan celebration of the goddess Eostre according to this site:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm
Noah Webster wrote in the American Dictionary of the English Language 1828
http://1828-dictionary.com/d/word/easter
E'ASTER, n.
A festival of the christian church observed in commemoration of our Savior's resurrection. It answers to the pascha or passover of the Hebrews, and most nations still give it this name, pascha, pask, paque.
However, this website does not elaborate the origin of the word "Easter" that is in the
actual hard copy of Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary.
The origin of the word 'Easter':n. [Sax. easter; G. ostern; supposed to be from Eostre, the goddess of love or Venus of the north, in honor of whom a festival was celebrated by our pagan ancestors, in April; whence this month was called Eostermonath. Eoster is supposed by Beda and others to be the Astarte of the Sidonians. See Beda, Cluver, and the authorities cited by Cluver, and b Jamieson, under Pasyad. But query.]
Source: American Dictionary of the English Language 1828 by Noah Webster.
Publisher: Foundation for the American Christian Education
So...knowing that the scriptures have been translated, retranslated and retranslated over and over again, who to say that King James did not deliberately have the word "Passover" replaced with the word "Easter"? Or that his translators may have deceivingly inserted it in that place?
A quick rundown of the time of the yearly Easter celebrations.
Easter is always celebrated on the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after the Spring Equinox.
Passover starts on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nissan.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/.../holidaya.html
Jewish months of the calendar year:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...ar.html#Months
Sometimes the two celebrations coincide together, other times they are weeks apart. In rare occasions, they can be a whole month apart.
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