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Friday, 15 June 2012
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solemnity - Year B
Feast of the Church : The Sacred Heart of Jesus, solemnityS Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 19:31-37.
Bad
Translations of the Jehovah's Witness Bible, the New World Translation (NWT).
Comparing versions of the Bible brings to light ‘bad translations’.
The “Catholic Comparative New Testament”, shows the rival translations of issue on the words, “look
on the one” / “look on him”. John 19:37
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Rheims
New Testament
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HIM ‘look on him’
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2.
New
American Bible
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HIM ‘look upon him’
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3.
Revised
Standard Bible
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HIM ‘look on him’
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4.
New
Revised Standard Bible
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the ONE ‘look on the one’
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5.
Jerusalem
Bible
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the ONE ‘look on the one’
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6.
New
Jerusalem Bible
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the ONE ‘look on the one’
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7.
Good
News Translation
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HIM ‘look at him’
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8.
Christian
Community Bible
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HIM ‘look on him’
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Other translations highlight the emphases.
Most interesting is to compare Knox Bible and
Amplifies Bible. Knox recognizes not the 3rd Person but the Person
as such, ‘man’. Does Knox go beyond Zecharia? Amplified Bible acknowledges the
3rd Person and capitalizes it, ‘Him’. The later adds clarity, ‘amplifies’.
Sacred Heart
“They will look on him whom they have pierced”(John 19:37)
Douai John 19:37
And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they
pierced.
Amp Bible John
19:37 And again another Scripture
says, They shall look on Him Whom they have pierced. [Zech. 12:10.]
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Zech. 12:10 - In this verse God is
speaking and says, "And I will pour out on the house of David and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on
me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an
only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn
son" (Zech. 12:10, NASB).
A.
The Jehovah's Witnesses change the word "me" to "the
one" so that it says in their Bible, "...they will look upon the
onewhom they have pierced..."
Since the Jehovah's Witnesses deny that Jesus is God in flesh, then Zech. 12:10 would present obvious problems--so they changed it.
Since the Jehovah's Witnesses deny that Jesus is God in flesh, then Zech. 12:10 would present obvious problems--so they changed it.
Amplified Bible:
Zec 12:10 And I will
pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the
Spirit of grace or unmerited favor and supplication. And they shall look [earnestly] upon Me Whom they have pierced, and
they shall mourn for Him as
one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one who is
in bitterness for his firstborn. [John 19:37; Rev.
1:7.]
(KJV) And I will pour upon the house of David, and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications:
and they shall look upon me
whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son,
and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
(Vulgate) et effundam super domum David et super
habitatores Hierusalem spiritum gratiae et precum et aspicient ad me quem
confixerunt et plangent eum planctu quasi super unigenitum et dolebunt super eum ut doleri solet in
morte primogeniti
Knox
Version : Jn. 19:37, … They will look upon
the man whom they have pierced.
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