Saturday, August 13, 2011

For those who claim that the translators of the New World Translation didn't know the biblical languages . . .?

The New Testament in the NWT was translated by Wescott and Hort. The Old Testament by another person. None of them were Witnesses. It took Wescott and Hort seven years to translate the NT. Each of them went into a separate room and translated a paragraph of the NT. Then they came together and compared their translations. If there were any discrepancies, they were researched until the correct translation was found. They did not transalate the Bible specifically for Jehovah's Witnesses. Of course they were not popular with other translators because their translation did not agree with the translators who supported the Trinity. The Witnesses did not start using this translation until the 1950's. I started studying in 1970 and I used the KJV. But the NWT is easier to read and understand so I started using that one.

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