Why are English Bible translations so bad??

January 4, 2008

#23

drevyev wrote:

Thank you for adding this to the discussion. The full text of the "Letter of Aristeas," which describes the production of the LXX, can be found

[url=http://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/aristeas.htm]here[/url]

I have read this text, that\'s why I added this info. I find it extremely interesting that Aristeas in his letter mentions that he feels that the Jews \"worship the same God we do (meaning Zeus) but they call him by a different name...\" in light of the fact that the Latin name Iuppiter (Jupiter) is a contraction or elision of the two words Deus Pater. It reminds me of what St. Paul said about paganism and those who believed in it, in Romans chapters 1 and 2.

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