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Nr. 1 Mistake of Wives

What is the number one mistake wives make? Making their children a higher priority than their husband. Wives, you have a covenant with your husband, not with your children. You made a vow to your husband, and a vow to God about your husband, and not a vow to your children.

If you have made your children more important to you than your husband, then you have failed as a wife, failed as a mother, and failed as a Christian.

Email From Reader

I received an email from someone who printed and read my translation of the Gospel of Luke.

Here is the text of his email:

ian sarsfield

Hi I have had a bit of a strange experiance this evening and just thought i would share it with you it may seem odd so pelase forgive me but it is as follows:
for christmas my partner bought me the comedy series ‘The Vicar of Dibley’ now i have seen this many many times before and just yesterday started watching it again and one of the episodes ‘Winter’ (in which a charector gives birth on Christmass day while playing the role of Mary in the Nativity) has hit me there was a small section where ‘the vicar’ is explaing about The Greatest Story Ever Told with the usual comic overtones from the other players in the scene BUT when she expalins that the birth of a small child 2000yrs ago is still be celebrated today just something struck me so i went online and looked up the Gospel According to Luke (as i studied this at school) and went through Wikipedia but then looking for a download stumbled upon your PDF (thank you very much) so this is where it really starts to get strange as i decided to print it off and just took out a wad of paper to put into my printer and had too many sheets to fit the tray so took some out and just started printing – now what is strange is when the final sheet went through i had unexpectedly placed the exact number of sheets of paper (64) in my printers tray – now this may well just be a coincidence or it may not i dont know but i just felt compelled top share it with you. I’m not a religous man and never have been although i would say i have always believed that there must be more to ‘this’ than just our lives here on earth si its been a strange evening all round for me tonight.
Forgive me for rambling and any typo’s as i’m sure there must be plenty i just thought you would like to know this
Kind regards
Ian Sarsfield

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Giving to the Poor

I am certain that God does not give you credit for giving to the poor by virtue of you voting for a politician who supports a government policy of taking money from people who have more money and giving it to the poor. You are only credited for what you actually personally sacrifice and personally give to a poor person you know. I am certain of this.

Robin Hood was a thief. So is a government that confiscates money from one person and gives it to a person who did not earn it. And as far as I am concerned, if you vote for such a politician or government, you are a thief too.

The Bible does not support the idea of taking money, or food, or anything else from one person and giving it to someone who does not work. Some claim that in the Old Testament under Moses there was socialism. No, not if by that you mean there were any people who were idle. No one was idle; everyone did something. Idleness was not in the least tolerated.

ORGISQEIS vs. SPLAGCNISQEIS

I just uploaded an update of my translation of the Gospel of Mark. What I updated was the critical footnote apparatus for chapter 1 verse 41, ORGISQEIS vs. SPlAGCNISQEIS. Jeff Cate has pointed out that the apparatuses out there were in error regarding MSS 783 and 1358.

This Greek variant in Codex D and some old Latin texts has Jesus becoming angry, as opposed to being filled with compassion as it is read in all other Greek manuscripts.

Grenfell & Hunt Hibeh Papyri

Uploaded: Grenfell and Hunt, the Hibeh Papyri Part 1

Edited with translations and notes. With Ten Plates.

“The papyri which form the subject of the present volume were obtained in the spring of 1902 from the Ptolemaic necropolis of El-Hibeh, partly by purchase, partly from our first excavations at that site, as is recorded in the Introduction. On p. 5 will be found an explanation of the remarkable fact that some of the literary papyri here edited belong to MSS. of which fragments were published by us in 1897. The papyri were, with one exception (no. 23), derived from mummy-cartonnage, and all belong to the third century B.C. …” Bernard P. Grenfell – Arthur S. Hunt.

You can download Grenfell and Hunt Hibeh Papyri here, or on my new Bible translation page.

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