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Bart Goddard wrote:
> peter.gibbs@charter.net wrote:
>
>
> > Those who focus on doctrine & theology imply by so doing that correct
> > doctrine & theology will save us. Is this not much like the Pharisaic
> > attitude toward the Law which Jesus condemned?
>
> "Doctrine" means "teaching". If we're teaching correctly, then
> we are preaching the Word. And it is the preaching of the Word
> which creates faith in the hearer.

Hi Bart. Can you cite that? It sounds familiar...

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> For example in the KJV vs 28 says:
>
> "He sent darkness, and made it dark, and they rebelled not against
> their word."
>
> New American translates same the vs as:
>
> "He sent darkness and it grew dark, but they rebelled against their
> word."
>
> NIV Study seems to compromise between the two translations of vs 28:
>
> "He sent darkness and made the land dark, for had they not rebelled
> against their words?"
>
> Which one is it? Which of the three Bibles here has the most accurate
> translation? If none do, which one does?

The first difference is "he (or it) made dark" (wayachshikh). The "he (or
it)" is any antecedent of masculine grammatical gender, either the "he" of
the first sentence (he made dark) or the darkness (it grew dark). I find
the first alternative more plausible, which is followed by KJV and NIV.
Both of these find an English sentence without an object ungrammatical and
thus add an object (KJV: "it"; NIV: "the land") which is not in he
original.

The second difference is whether they rebelled or not. The Massoretic
Hebrew text (MT) says they did not rebel. Many ancient (pre-Christian era)
translations, among them the Septuagint (LXX), say they rebelled. Either
these translated from a Hebrew text not containing the word "not", or
these translations took the "not" for an error. KJV follows the MT, NA
follows the LXX, NIV tries a compromise.

The third difference is how the two sentences are connected. In the
original there is a mere "and". Now, although there is a Hebrew word for
"but" (aval), it is not commonly used in Biblical Hebrew (as distinct from
Modern Hebrew where it is frequent), and the meaning of "but" is often
expressed by "and". Both "and" and "but" are therefore reasonable
renderings. The rhetorical question in the NIV might be possible but looks
far-fetched; such questions are normally initiated with "is it not" (halo)
and not with "and not" (welo); I take