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Title: pepaideumenoi tes aletheias tekmairometha monoi
Review: This messy storm in a cracked teacup is past bearing tiresome. Only by studying Greek and Hebrew can readers of the Bible even begin to be confident of their text. Insofar as they may ever be confident of a text which has so many variants. Furthermore, they will ahead of the so-called Church Fathers who did not understand Hebrew and so indulged their ancient provincialism by resorting to the Greek Septuaginta when they read those documents which we now call the Old Testament.Are the German Protestants damned to errancy because they read Luther's translation? Are, indeed, the present day Greeks evildoers because they read an original which they normally only imperfectly understand? Gracious, such intolerance!Peasants, my Polish grandmother would say, who herself was firmly biased in favor of the Latin Vulgate. Our own compatriots here in America might say: hicks!
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