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NASB | Revelation 22:19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 22:19 and if anyone takes away from or distorts the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away [from that one] his share from the tree of life and from the holy city (new Jerusalem), which are written in this book. |
Bible Question:
A Muslim friend asked me, "did the original King James translation include the apocrypha?" His question was posed in the context of a one on one discussion of why Christians trust translations of the Bible, and trust copies of the Biblical language manuscripts. I don't know the purpose of his question. It may be a small curiosity on his part. Muslims believe their book in Arabic is "unaltered" and are puzzled by Christian practice of translating into every language. At least I'll have another factiod to give him to continue friendly discussion, hopefully move to evangelizing him. |
Bible Answer: 'F. F. Bruce states there is no evidence that the Jews (neither Hebrew nor Greek speaking) ever accepted a wider canon than the twenty-two books of the Hebrew OT. He argues that when the Christian community took over the Greek OT they added the Apocrypha to it and "gave some measure of scriptural status to them also." 'Gleason Archer makes the point that other Jewish translations of the OT did not include the Apocryphal books. The Targums, the Aramaic translation of the OT, did not include them; neither did the earliest versions of the Syriac translation called the Peshitta. Only one Jewish translation, the Greek (Septuagint), and those translations later derived from it (the Italia, the Coptic, Ethiopic, and later Syriac) contained the Apocrypha. 'Even the respected Greek Jewish scholar Philo of Alexandria never quotes from the Apocrypha. One would think that if the Greek Jews had accepted the additional books, they would have used them as part of the canon. Josephus, who used the Septuagint and made references to 1 Esdras and 1 Maccabees writing about 90 A.D. states that the canon was closed in the time of Artaxerxes I whose reign ended in 423 B.C. It is also important to note that Aquila's Greek version of the OT made about 128 A.D., which was adopted by the Alexandrian Jews, did not include the Apocrypha.' ____________________ From "The Old Testament Apocrypha Controversy" by Don Closson To read the entire article go to:(http://www.probe.org/docs/apocrypha.html) |
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