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Thread #135039   Message #3076897
Posted By: MGM·Lion
18-Jan-11 - 12:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: How the Bible altered how we speak
Subject: RE: BS: How the Bible altered how we speak
The Authorised Version translation is not always as literal as the report above suggested ~~ there is often a bit of extra poetic bit added by the translators, italicised to show that the translators wish to come clean and admit to having departed from or embellished the original.

An example is in Psalm 137: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning...

The original Hebrew just says "... let my right hand forget"; but isn't that "her cunning" an inspired addition! Wonder what forgotten genius thought up those two perfectly clinching extra words?

~Michael~