What are the KJOists going to do?

That's the way I would see it too. Common minds think alike aye.

 

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Exactly, and that is just what the MVs are attempting to do. Give a more exact, accurate and modern translation in updated 20-21st century English as opposed to the Elizabethan-Jacobean English, culture and ecclesiology of the 1611-1769 AV.

HankD

 

Since I've discovered the www, I've found a wonderful dictionary-the Webster's 1828. Funny thing is, the words we have today sure have changed in meaning over the years from the original intent. I prefer the older definitions, as they seem to be more genuine to what was meant...they don't seem watered-down.

 

I gotta go with Granny on this one. If my wife calls me and says, "I have a flat tire" I will ask which mall the car is parked at, and go fix it for her.

But if she says "I had a blow out" I will understand her to mean she had a violent, catastrophic tire failure while driving that could lead to accident, or even death.

The two phrases are not, in my opinion, synonymous.

 

OK. so it wasn't the best of examples, how about this?

I'm going to the store to buy some eggs.

OR

I'm going to the store to purchase some eggs.

OR

I'm going to the store to buy some chicken embryos.



HankD

 

Have you ever wondered who the guy was who first said, "I am so hungry I am going to eat the next thing that comes out of that chicken's rear end!"?

 

Out in West Texas, we say, "Hun, git some ay-eggs when ya go ta Wally-world!"

Lacy

 

Homebound:This topic is/has already been discussed here, http://www.baptistboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/4/1666/3.html?

Then why did you bring it up again?

 

Skanwmatos:I gotta go with Granny on this one. If my wife calls me and says, "I have a flat tire" I will ask which mall the car is parked at, and go fix it for her.

But if she says "I had a blow out" I will understand her to mean she had a violent, catastrophic tire failure while driving that could lead to accident, or even death.

The two phrases are not, in my opinion, synonymous.

I agree.


Sometimes, we hafta consider those who don't have our command of English. For example, if I had learned English as a second language & someone said to me, "I had a flat tire", I might say, I didn't know YOU had a tire!" Or if he says, I had a blow-out!" I might reply, "Who did you shoot?"

(Humor in a varicose vein)

 

Granny, thanks for the email picture!

HankD

 

You're welcome! Now ya know.

 

But you have to remember that, although a word may have had a certain meaning then, it may have a totally different meaning now.

English is a changing, growing language. If it wasn't, there would never have been a need for a different dictionary than the first one ever printed. But, since the English language does change, and does so rapidly, the very definitions used in the newest dectionary could beoutdated in a matter of months.

When the KJV was first translated (and later updated), the words used conveyed what the manuscript said (or pretty close to it). But English has grown and changed since then. The very words have taken on new and different meanings.

I understand how older definitions seem more solid, because they are. And the vast majority of them are still valid. But, again, the main meaning of those words are not the same main meanings found in those old dictionaries.

Time stands still for no one, and neither does the English language.

In Christ,
Trotter