Word: testament
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Witness. The testament of Whittaker Chambers (TIME...
...statement of their guiding principles. Its substance: not only is the text of the King James version weighed down with old words and phrases, not used in modern English, but the Greek and Hebrew texts on which it is based were often faulty and sometimes misleading. "The Greek New Testament they used," says Dean Weigle, "had five to six thousand errors...
Some changes were obvious. To make sense in 20th century English, "Libertines" became "Freedmen," "feeble minded" was changed to "faint-hearted," and "mortify" to "put to death." All the poetic passages in the Old Testament (40% of the whole including the Psalms) were translated in blank verse...
Witness. The testament of Whittaker Chambers (TIME...
Witness. The testament of Whittaker Chambers (TIME...