The Prophecy of the 70 weeks of Daniel

I don't think so, Buzzy.'Messiah' is the Latinized form of messias, which is a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew mashiyach (the anointed one).'Christ' is the Anglicized form of the Latin christos, which is a transliteration of a Greek translation (christos) of the Hebrew mashiyach (the anointed one).Beginning in the sixteenth century, the word 'Christ' has been methodically and purposefully stricken from the Old Testament by translating it from the Greek (and Latin), to the English 'anointed.' For a classic example of how the term was once understood we need only refer to the first ever English translation of the Bible by John Wycliffe, a man who is honored as "Father of the Protestant Reformation." At Psalm 17:51 {18:50 in modern Bibles} Wycliffe renders the Vulgate's "christo suo David" as "his crist Dauid." The Vulgate agrees with the Septuagint here and the Septuagint agrees with the Hebrew. Thus, we see in Wycliffe's simple English, the sense of this verse as it was during the first two thousand years of its biblical existence! Modern Bibles uniformly present it as: "his anointed." Even so it is clear by all that is holy reasoning, it should read: "Christ David"By this means Christianity presents a false dichotomy which exaggerates the significance of Jesus as compared to other sons of David.

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Theology is the science of Dominion.
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No. You can't. Wrong culture. Wrong century. Wrong office. How flipantly you dismiss precious truth gleaned from true Bible study; and completely ignore the devastating conclusion to which it leads. Who would expect a modern English dictionary to deal effectively with questions of ancient language? You Buz? Or someone wishing to avoid the issue? An honest seeker of truth might consult a good lexicon, like Young's or Strong's. Perhaps that is too much to ask? No one has claimed that he does. I can appreciate your animosity, y'old Fart, but you should attack us for what we say, not what you'd like to imagine we have said. No one is rejecting the dictionary definitions, although many realize that they are inadequate. A good concordance/lexicon is much more revealing. Do you object to consulting the great experts on biblical Hebrew and Greek?

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Theology is the science of Dominion.
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