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NASB | Matthew 1:19 And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 1:19 And Joseph her [promised] husband, being a just and righteous man and not wanting to expose her publicly to shame, planned to send her away and divorce her quietly. |
Subject: What does "send her away" refer to? |
Bible Note: Dear Sir Pent, It is good to hear from you! Rest assured, I have great confidence in many of our wonderful translations! I do believe that God has indeed providentialy preserved for us His inerrant Word. However, I also believe it is incorrect to say that translations of the Greek and Hebrew texts are infallible translations. The final authority must lie in the Greek and Hebrew texts alone. God has blessed His church with great scholars and teachers whose work it is to help us to gain as much of an understanding of the truth as is possible for mere men. If it were not for scholars such as these, the mass of christians would not be able to read the Bible unless they knew the ancient languages themselves. We have concordances for a reason. Which is as an aid to check our particular translation against the original meaning of a given word. By and large I think all good translations provide all that we need to understand. The unscholarly as well as the scholarly may confidently rely on the works we have today. Nevertheless, in matters of dispute (for instance) the appeal is always to the original language itself. Brother John |