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In 1 John 4 is this verse: "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
God's help in preservation of His words is found in an unusual way in 1 John "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. The Bottom Line The main point is this: God made sure the King James Bible was not only an accurate and excellent translation of His words in English, He even made sure they were quite honest in their use of italics.
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Please continue to pray for us and "Thank You! Were the italicized words in the original Hebrew and Greek, and if not are they inspired? Please consider the following notes: The Italicized Words are Inspired Italicized words are used when there is no equivalent Hebrew or Greek word in the text for the English word but the English word must be used in order to say the same thing which is said in the Hebrew of Greek.
Word for word translation is not possible because: a. Some Hebrew and Greek words must be translated with 2 or more English words b. Sometimes 2 or more Hebrew or Greek words may be correctly translated with only one English word c. We have included here only a very small glimpse of the role of italics in biblical study, but probably enough has been said to show their purpose and importance, and to illustrate how the Prophet Joseph Smith sometimes dealt with them.
February Eldon Tanner. Why are some words italicized in the Bible? How does a person pray without ceasing? Dean Garrett. How can I develop greater faith? Larry A. Durrant and Noel R. Can You Stand Success? So it is plain to see that both sets of translators added the same word to complete the sentence.
Yet the King James translators put the word in italics to inform the reader that they had added it. Again, both sets of translators have added words to their translation so that it would make sense.
In this case it is the phrase "was sent. Thus we see that the translators of our Bible should be commended on their integrity and ethics for their addition of the italicized words instead of castigated for a practice which all of our modern "would be" scholars follow routinely--and less honestly, if you consider that they don't bother to italicize their added words. Usually they are stumped by a passage such as the word "unknown" in 1 Corinthians Since they cannot explain the passage with the italicized word in the passage they make the thoughtless statement reproduced above and remove the problem word.
But this opens a tremendously large "can of worms! Even the casual student of Scripture knows that the Bible will make no sense at all if ALL italicized words are removed. To remove one italicized word and leave another in is to claim Divine Inspiration in knowing which words should go and which words should stay.
Regardless of how great a preacher, soul-winner, or scholar might be none of us are going to bow our knees to them with the claim that they are Divinely inspired to reject or accept words in the Bible. If we are so foolish as to exalt a man's opinion in such a way, who should we exalt?
How would we choose him? And WHO would be so naive as to think that all Christians would follow his decrees? So we see that overcoming problem passages will require prayer and Bible reading instead of carelessly removing a troublesome word. One of the classic defenses for leaving the italicized words alone is found in II Samuel By omitting the italicized words we have the Bible saying that Elhanan killed Goliath.
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