Word: terebinth
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...flinch when the priest at a wedding intones: "Let no man separate what God has joined," instead of, "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder." Something is missing, too, when "the spirit is willing but nature is weak." Inexplicably, some words have become more obscure ("terebinth," for instance, replaces "turpentine tree"). And sometimes the translation seems a bit too breezy. In the tense temptation scene, Jesus formerly proclaimed to the Devil, "It is written"; now he says, "Scripture has it." In James 2:16, "Go in peace" becomes "Goodbye and good luck...
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