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Introduction to the BibleTexts.com Bible Commentary The textual commentary included in The BibleTexts.com Bible Commentary is based upon the United Bible Societies' definitive Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Hebrew Old Testament), Septuaginta (Greek Old Testament), and Greek New Testament (Third and/or Fourth Revised Edition), and includes clarifications and corrections to the King James Version wording. All of the New Testament textual commentary articles in the BibleTexts webpages are in complete agreement with the findings published in Bruce M. Metzger's definitive A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Second Edition, The purpose of a "textual commentary" is (1) to reconstruct the original wording of the original texts (i.e., the earliest ancient Hebrew or Greek biblical texts) and then reassess the appropriateness of subsequent translated wording into modern languages; and/or (2) to detail the history of the transmission of the text from the time of its first appearing to the present. This textual commentary also provides readers with many of the corrections needed to enable the KJV to better reflect the original texts. (For details on the KJV see http://www.bibletexts.com/kjv-tr.htm.) Excerpts from this commentary that are relevant to the weekly Bible Lesson are made freely available each week in the Bible Lesson Study Aid. The information contained therein will help you read the Bible Lesson with a greater familiarity with the original texts behind the Bible passages. |
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Apocrypha (known in the Roman Catholic Church as Deuterocanonical Books) - The order of the books of the Apocrypha -- shown above and below -- is identical to the Apocrypha in the 1611 edition of the King James Version. Other books of the Apocrypha that were included in the Greek, Latin, and/or Slavonic Old Testament texts are the following: Psalms 151, 3 Maccabees, and 4 Maccabees, as shown below. As indicated below with asterisks and darker blue background, the KJV's Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel correspond with names and/or content of books of the Apocrypha. To learn more about the Aprocrypha, see response to question and Bible dictionary definition.)
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