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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3770525, member: 57463"]Thanks for the reply, Irbguy, and for the clarification. I appreciate the depth of your scholarship. I was misinformed or perhaps misunderstood the preface to a single anthology of New Testament Greek. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also appreciate the depth of your passion for your religion. <b>My error was not a deliberate lie.</b> I did not know one thing to be true while convincing others of an untruth for my own benefit. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I did not deny the validity of the Septuagint. I never mentioned it. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is nice to know that the Greek texts are reliable if only for their support of <b>numismatic</b> research. "Coins of the Bible" is a popular topic. In particular, when Jesus and Peter were in Capernaum, in the NT I had, the coin that the Big Fisherman found was called a "statyr." It could have been many things, but was not a denarius or a tetradrachma. So, that would be helpful to someone pursuing a collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3770525, member: 57463"]Thanks for the reply, Irbguy, and for the clarification. I appreciate the depth of your scholarship. I was misinformed or perhaps misunderstood the preface to a single anthology of New Testament Greek. I also appreciate the depth of your passion for your religion. [B]My error was not a deliberate lie.[/B] I did not know one thing to be true while convincing others of an untruth for my own benefit. Also, I did not deny the validity of the Septuagint. I never mentioned it. It is nice to know that the Greek texts are reliable if only for their support of [B]numismatic[/B] research. "Coins of the Bible" is a popular topic. In particular, when Jesus and Peter were in Capernaum, in the NT I had, the coin that the Big Fisherman found was called a "statyr." It could have been many things, but was not a denarius or a tetradrachma. So, that would be helpful to someone pursuing a collection.[/QUOTE]
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