MOst people are not that versed in how brackets are used.
Hopefully, you now are.
@Ronald Nolette I don't believe @doctrox was trying to pull a fast one, obviously, because he used brackets, a different methodology than references for footnotes, or like what most people here do, they write between the verses or lines in the margins.
Rules of grammar. We can all learn more of them.
I prefer footnotes and leaving the original as literal as possible...
footnote: a note of reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page -
Webster's
Note that such citation or reference in an article usually has two parts. In the first part, each section of text that is either based on, or quoted from, an outside source is
marked as such with an
inline citation. This is usually displayed as a superscript footnote number
within the body of the text. By
your estimation, such would qualify as "adding to the text" as per the infamous Scofield Reference Bible, where the study
notes are written with an air of absolute and infallible authority, which discourages independent critical thinking and leads readers to mistake editorial commentary for biblical text.
He did not clarify the sentence, he altered it by adding the bracketed word.
Vis-à-vis, 'Scofield did not clarify the sentence, he altered it by adding the superscript to a footnote.'
Mistake #1.
I want translators well versed in Hebrew/Greek/English in any combo of them.
Mistake #2. The word of God is not a smorgasbord. Yes, it was written in Greek - for
Greek readers. But you're not Greek, and this isn't Greece, and Greek is not the common language, even as God has preserved his words for us forever. God is finished with "Hebrew/Greek/English in any combo of them."
Any nine-year-old girl in Greece knows Greek better than "translators" or wannabee 'scholars' in these forums; the Greek Orthodox Church has had the 'so-called' advantage of an intimate knowledge of, not only the Greek language, but also the traditional Greek text of the Bible. Yet they show no spiritual fruit.
The secret is not 'Greek,' but 'meek' (Psa. 25:9)
The impact of endings in Greek and grammar is Hebrew is vital if one is to correctly translate from the ancient languages to English
Rather,
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that
from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (2 Tim. 3:14-15)
Notice that even a
child understands the holy scriptures -- no middlemen wanna-be ‘scholars’ required!
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (2 Tim. 3:16)
Notice that it is
God who gives scripture -- not man. Man does not even feature in this verse.
Notice that the purpose of God, giving to man, God’s inspired scripture is so “that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
If you speak English, then simply read the English bible that God has provided you. One should just read the
English in which it is written - i.e. the inspired words of God in the common language of the day and not some foregone foreign manuscript of times past resurrected locally in an attempt to justify an unwanted and undiscerning perspective.
God's pattern has always been the same: He gives the COMMON man the COMMON bible in the COMMON language of the day, to do one thing -- evangelize the world. God has magnified his word above all his name (Psalm 138:2).
