Just curious as to what studies and what bible do you use then. As for using so called approved versions, If I am studying a particular passage I always like to look up different translations to compare and contrast.
I use the RSV-CE version, though the Church’s formal version is the Latin Vulgate, which also translates that passage as “full of Grace.”
I am glad to see that the movie has been made because it is very much better for movies like that to be made, then the alternatives that we usually get. However, I also think it is better that people worship at Protestant Churches then at no church at all, yet that does not mean I would worship at a Protestant Church.
My bottom line is I firmly hold, accept and believe that the Catholic faith is the fullness of what Christ gave and I simply see no reason to involve myself in non-Catholic treatments of accounts that were handed down by the Holy Spirit through the Lord’s Catholic Church. I also hold a great love for Our Lady and I simply have little patience with the very prevalent lack of respect that she receives in the modern Christian world, and I will not add to that by viewing that movie. Mary is our Mother and I will not watch her be dis’ed in any way.
Here is an interesting list of Bible versions that have translated Luke 1:28 correctly (which seems to reflect that “highly favored” is a fairly modern interpretation):
-Tyndale’s Version [1534] the verse says “Full of Grace”
-Cranmer’s Version [1539] the verse says “Full of Grace”
-Geneva [1599] says in the Margin Notes "might be rendered, 'full of favour and grace, "
-Authorized Version or KJV [1611] says in the Margin notes “Much Graced”
-Polyglott Bible [1838] says in the Margin notes “or Much Graced”
-Revised Version [1885] says in the Margin Notes: “Endowed with Grace”.
-American Standard Version [1901] says in the Margin Notes: “or Endowed with Grace”.
-Scofield Edition [1909, revised in 1914] says in the Margin Notes “or Endued with Grace”
-New Standard Reference Bible [1934] says in the Margin notes “Much Graced”
-The Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Manuscripts by Gorge M. Lamsa’s [1957] the verse says “peace be to you, O full of grace”
-The Amplified [1958] in the verse (In brackets) “endowed with grace” with a foot note that says “literal translation”
-A literal Translation by Jay P. Green [1985] the verse says “And entering, the angel said to her, Hail, one having received grace!..”
-The Interlinear Greek-English New Testament, by Jay P. Green [2nd edition 1985] the verse says "…Hail, one receiving grace!..
The above list came from:
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