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Readability Chronicles: 2 Peter 1:18

January 23, 2010

Second in an occasional series comparing the readability of NKJ and ESV. The Epistle for tomorrow (Transfiguration) is 2 Peter 1:16-21. Verse 18 ESV seemed awkward, so I compared it to NKJ. ESV: We ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. NKJ: And we heard [...]

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Readability Chronicles: Zechariah 9:9

November 30, 2009

I’ve received, at long last, The Lutheran Study Bible, which employs the English Standard Version (ESV). We’ve been switching gradually to ESV at Immanuel. For the last year or so, we’ve read the Old Testament and the Epistle from the ESV, while continuing to read the Gospel from the New King James version (NKJ). I had [...]

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Quirinius conundrum [updated]

December 23, 2008

Sometimes living 10 miles from church really stinks. It would be nice to skateboard over there and check out Just’s Luke commentary, see what Fr. Brown has to say, and look at the CPH lectionary book. I think that the Luke 2 gospel for Christmas Eve gives Luke 2.2 as saying something like, “This registration [...]

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"Prepare a sacrifice"?

July 9, 2008

Why does the ESV have in Ps. 5.3 (5.4 Heb.) “in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch”? The Hebrew is ‘arak, which HALOT has as “to lay out, set in rows”; it can also mean to set up a battle formation; but the kicker is this: it is a legal term [...]

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