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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Mr. Helge Evensen wrote:
> Mr. Minton,
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> The problem in the KJV at Mark 2:15 does not seem to be a translational=
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> problem at all, as it has been suggested. Sometimes the KJV translators=
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> used other sources than the available Greek editions. For instance, a few=
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> times the they selected readings from the Latin Vulgate. Their main=20
> source for the NT was Beza=B4s 1598 Greek edition. Since the translators=
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> seem to have had Beza as the greatest authority for the text of the NT,=
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> it will do good sometimes to check out his Latin translation.=20
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> I have done so in a few occasions, and more than once I found that the=20
> KJV translators have followed a Latin translation of Beza. I have a=20
> pocket edition of Beza=B4s Latin dated MCMXXV. It=B4s text is taken from =
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> reprint dated 1642.
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> In Mark 2:15 this text reads as following: Et factum est, ut quum Jesus=
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> accumberet in domo illius, .......
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> The Latin Vulgate reads: Et factum est cum accumberet in domo=20
> illius......


I don't think it was the influence of Beza's Latin because all the earlier=
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English NTs based on Greek have "Jesus" twice like the KJV.  It followed=20
them.  Wycliffe and Rheims read more like the Greek, apparently following=
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the Latin Vulgate.

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