KJV Mt. 2:4

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Tue Jun 12 07:24:49 EDT 2001


I would question your use of " mistranslated" -- what is appropriate for 
a  21st. century understanding cannot automatically be applied to 
Elizabethan English, surely?.

Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote;

>For example, I can remember the time when a U.K passport carried a request 
>from Her Majesty that  "the bearer be allowed, without let or hindrance " 
>-- in 400 years, the meaning of " let " had changed completely from " 
>prevent" to " allow " [ in fact, in tennis to this very day it retains the 
>original meaning !! ]
>
>So Ted is quite right to suggest  " or is this only a matter of changes in 
>the English language over a span of 400 years? "

I am sure Maurice was thinking of the text below.

MONON hO KATECWN ARTI hEWS EK MESOU GENHTAI.

KJV 2 Thess. 2:7 .  .  . only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken 
out of the way.

Carlton Winbery
LA College



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