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KJV is well loved and used

Discussion in 'Bible Versions & Translations' started by Pastor Sam, Mar 22, 2018.

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  1. TCassidy

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    And different people have different expectations of how a word is used and what its meaning is.

    For a lawyer, the primary meaning of "let" is "hindrance, obstacle, obstruction; as, without let, molestation or hindrance."

    However, to a real estate agent, "to let" means "to lease; to grant the use and possession of something for a compensation."

    To the vast American middle "to let" means "to allow."

    Our expectations often influence our understanding.
     
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    Lawyers are the worse sort because they quibble with each other and expect others to pay for it.

    Real estate folks aren’t much better because they appeal to what is constructed as if it is real.

    “Let” means to leave it alone. You mess with what ever the it is, and it will break or hurt you. Often, to the child, both.

    Like my daddy said, “You better let that be, because if you break it, you’ll wish you hadn’t.”
     
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    Right, and this is not even an archaic vs. modern issue.

    Another that comes to mind is cleave (stick together) and cleave (split asunder).
     
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    Driving in the parkway and parking in the driveway.
     
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    Like flammable and inflammable.

    Umm...



    Sent from my Pixel 2 XL
     
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    Doing 5MPH in the RushHour. :)
     
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    Much-simpler to use Bible versions in one's own language.
     
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    I have two Thomas Nelson Open Bibles in the KJV. Wore out the first one and now on the second!

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    This thread reminds me of the people immigrating from Asia to the US.

    We are a blended English language nation in which words come from around the world, and some figures speech, like idioms, are highly confusing to especially the asians.

    More often in the classroom, I had to be careful not to express them without explanation.

    Interestingly, (at least to me) was that accounting terms were usually the first to become familiar and assimilated by the students.

    Where at first, whole sale was getting all that you paid for at regular price, they soon understood it as a bargain price.

    But when the students would use "hitting the books" for studying, or "stabbed in the back" for someone being deceitful, or "under the weather" for someone sick, it was interesting to watch how they would gradually adopt the terms, and gradually (tentatively) use them in sentences until they became "second nature."

    :)
     
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    THAT IS REALLY FUNNY. You don't understand what God is saying in His word?
     
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    Actually I do, and a large part of that is because I never felt the need to first learn 400 year old English grammar and vocabulary before I could start to comprehend the Bible in English. A Lutheran Minister gave me a copy in RSV. Then I purchased an NIV and now I read the NASB while comparing any tricky verses in a dozen translations online (and Strong’s Concordance plus Thayer’s Lexicon).
     
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