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echo: edge_online
to: Steve Asher
from: George Pope
date: 2006-01-19 10:48:00
subject: ... Mark of the Beast?

SA> "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and
SA> bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
SA>
SA> - Revelation 13:16-17

Good, you quoted an older translation -- the modren ones all say "on their
right hand" (instead of "in"); I checked with my Greek
scholar friends, and
apparently, although Greek is very particular in its verbs & nouns, it's not so
specific with prepositions, and both are accurate translations of the text, but
I find it significant that the oldest translators used "in" while
the modern
ones, when we know about implanted chips, use "on" (normal exegesis has
ambiguous Greek translated according to the traditionally chosen options)

It's especially insidious that the King James is rendered differently,
considering it's supposed to be true to the 1611 translation!

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))
(aka Reverend George A. Pope)

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