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Question #45
QUESTION: Can a person of Greek ethnic origin better
understand the Greek New Testament and therefore correct the
English Bible?
ANSWER: No.
EXPLANATION: The Greek language as found in the New
Testament and the modem Greek language spoken in Greece are
so vastly different from each other as to be non-interchangeable
one with the other.
The faulty assumption that a "Greek" would be equipped, due
to his nationality, to change the English Bible is humorous at best
and arrogant at worst.
No man, Greek or otherwise, has been inspired by God to
change the Bible.
Teaching "from the Greek by a Greek" may sell many books
and lead to a rich Greek, but it certainly doesn't lead to a better
understanding of God's word.
The Answer Book © 1989 by Samuel C. Gipp
Reproduced by permission
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