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looked its important function in the Greek, and in
serted OF omitted it in their translation without
gard to either pathological or theological conse-
quences. THUS, for example, they used the word
Christ In the four gospels without the article, OIL
though no instance Of such usage occurs in the mar
ratlve proper overlooking tho fact that the omis-
SION of the article would imply the recognition Of
Christ as Messiah In the very times when such rec
ognltion was at best partial among his own dsci-
pies, and was refused by the society Of his time.
Consequently, in the Evangelsts narratives we al
ways find " no Christos," the Christ. who might or
| might not be Jesus. After the resurrection, when
MS Messiahship became accepted fact, the name
begins to be used with OF without the article. So in
| Hcrods inquiry, Matthew ill., :. every sees the
proprety of the Of the article which the author
lzed version omits The rcyiscrs rightly read lie
demanded Of them whore the Christ should be born
that parsonage well known 20 Jewish expectation.
Othcr examples may DO found at II. Thessalonians
H. 8 Hebrews, Nj, 10 l. Timothy, vi. 10 Mat
thew w. ; John, Vi, - Matthew, xvii, o. ;
! John, w.. p.
Then the lenses. There Is surely n difference
whlch any English writer with the least prctension
to accuracy would observe between he went - and
he has gone between he does" and "he is do
ing between he ran and " he was running" Sim
ilarly there is very plain and very important
distinction in Greek between the aOrst tense, de-
Tho ,orr, "a ~ ''''
an immediate and abiding result between the
aoriSt tense and Tive imperfect tense dcnoting action
IN progress Int unfinished in specified time in the
past As the trau,ator- Of King Jamcs's version
were blinded by the Latin lingn{r to the functions
OF the article, 80, a. the Latin had only perfect
tense TO represent the perfect and th" aorist in
"'''N' my oN'r'o"k'" the 'I'AT ana 'l'uA'' us
'i''. "" between THESE lenses linus lhr r'''"oh
i'E"'" ''rrctS the translation oil H'F,~'' 'y per-
i ''''' rs III Na''h'" H. = "h'F' w. nave seen
inH ""' - ,"''.'" 70 We saw %, ~ u,
-, 80 - INV i'''' .'' W " WI i''' go
| "''" ',' VIZ" ,''' ''' ~ '''." q"
"'''' S"'"," IT. '"'' ,"''''1 VI,
'''",. 10 "''," '''. u, ''' I',
"'' '' ,'i''''' 1T w. 80 80 " ','''' We ''-'
''''" ~ ''''''' -''-''
, >" .'. '.'' .',''' wv W.
''''' ~ '' "', ''', ''''' 81
Nv" - "'' version reads lie was ''I.''' ANA "'
i"" 'S''" Uli'>i"'"S "''" ''''' ~ "'' -
'H'"S' '"r latter Is . perfect whereas '' i'.il'.
.'I ~ '' '"' t"N'>''h' lie was '.ii''' "'' "''"
been in~"i "rIr'''I'" 30" n'>u''u'n a. % .'' ~
th' Apo" s. nun " To- t"''" 'a' A.-' 'i-' event "'
.' ''''' ''" "'"' ''''''' 1''' '''' "''1"' ''''
W WIZ MS ''''''
'''''.''''' "' ''"' '''' '''P '''
"N a. '"' '' '''N' ''''' j." l' u.s. ''"'
'i' u'"' '"''"' J. "''" '"'' ~ '. ""'I' '''
N'i'i'h' Al Luxe l. ~ ih'- ~ i-'-'' l',.4' 3"
ms. l'''i'i'' We t'iH '''l 'H y '"'1 jon"
the BIpti, Zarharil,. But they dln cal him 80.
bc0au~, bis moth, riat,rp",cd. The revision makes
IL right b.. ~.mpl, restoring the ,rn,' Of tho impcr
feet: "lh"y "ond nave called hun; th"5 were
10y calling An- - AZ LH'. WIZ - ""f L"-.'-h
l'i'" >A'- %! 'a" disciples ship IN the storm; 'hy
were h''d Win water whereas ''' h'i'''"
brings "H' ih' r""i i1'i q, conveyed ~ '"' l''"r-