Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, Volume 4
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“The words ‘shalt be,’ should actually read ‘holy one’—‘Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, the holy one.…’ This error came into the kjv because, as we noted earlier, the translators mainly used Beza’s Greek NT (1598). Beza simply speculated (guessed), without any evidence whatsoever, that the correct reading was ‘shall be’ (ἐσόμενος) instead of ‘holy one’ (ὅσιος). All previous editions of the TR (i.e., Erasmus, Stephanus) and all previous English Bibles (i.e., Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale, Matthew’s Bible, Great Bible, Geneva Bible, Bishops’ Bible) read ‘holy one’ (ὅσιος). There is no manuscript evidence whatsoever for the kjv’s ‘shalt be.’ It is an indisputable error.” (Volume 4, Page 156)
“The phrase ‘profession of our faith’ should be ‘profession of our hope.’ Everyone concedes that the actual Greek word is hope (ἐλπίς), not faith (πίστις); hope is found in all manuscripts and all editions of the TR. Hope and faith are two entirely different words, so one cannot sincerely argue that the translators simply decided on ‘faith’ as the correct translation at this point. Besides, the Greek word for hope (ἐλπίς) is used 52 others times in the NT and in every case the translators of the kjv rendered it ‘hope,’ not ‘faith.’” (Volume 4, Page 158)
“There is no one edition of the TR, but a number of editions with some differences among them. It is generally agreed that the edition used by the translators of the kjv was the fifth edition (1598) of Theodore Beza.15 All editions of the TR have some readings that are clearly erroneous, but have remained in the kjv.” (Volume 4, Page 155)
- Title: Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, Volume 4
- Author: William W. Combs
- Series: Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal
- Publisher: Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary
- Print Publication Date: 1999
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Periodicals
- Resource ID: LLS:gs_dbsj_04
- Resource Type: Journal
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