Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-06-02
ST. JOHN MAKES ANSWER
Makes Proofs of His Position and
Assails the Criticisms of
Mr.. Griffith.

Mr.. Grlfhth, l VIII prove my pos
itions thus
l. 1t is well-known fact that
the New Testament was orig
inally written in the Greek lan-
gOagp, and very inadequately and |
sometimes very incorrectly, trans
lated by King James uninspired
translators about 1900 years after
the Apostles and Evangelists wrote
1t in Greek. and Luke's Greek
words "enomlzeto huios" in Luke
1923 mean in correct English a son
in law" or "a son in the law" and
this shows that Joseph. Jesus re-
puted father, was not a veritablc
real, actual begOtten son of He'll
ne you try to think in order to try
to make Luke contradict Matthew,
but in which you have ingloriously
failed. Had Luke been adequate
ly translated the English version
would show that am correct, and
no nan has any sort of right to &C
cuse any New Testament writer of
contradicting another unless he un-
derstands the language in which
they originally wrote. So this
proves not only that Joseph, was
the son,in-law of He'll, but it also
proves my other former statement
that Luke traced Jesus genealogy
through his mothers side of the
house,
2. Matt 1;16is correctly transla>
ted for Mathews Greek word "egen.
nese" does mean "begat," or "be
got" and 30 we know that Jacob
begat Joseph the husband OF Mary.
of whom was born Jesus who was
called Christ, and therefore that
Joseph was the veritable, real, act.
ual begotten son of Jacob instead
of Hell, as Mr.. Griffith wrongly as-
sumes, and this also proves beyond
doubt my former position that
Matthew traced Jesus pedigree
through his reputed NAther's
side of the house, and not
through his mothers as did Luke.
This is also very apparent by so
many different names of fathers in
Matthew and Luke's genealogies.
Any man can see This who will.
Mr., Griffith, your infdel crih-
cisms must tall before such un.
doubted proofs as these You ask
editor the proofs and have given
them. Don't deny them but dis
prove them if you can,
The following proofs will show
why John was not killed by Herod
| CD Herod slew only the boys OF
male children, as the Greek WORD
"paides' shows, from two years old
and under, according to the tins
which he had diligently inquired
of the wise men. (Matt. 2:16) Thai
is he did this about two years after
Jesus was born, and about or near
ly two years after Jesus got into
Egypt, and Consequently Johr
escaped because he was six month,
over two years Old. (2) John wa.
not born III Bethlehem nor in any
of its coasts, or borders, or bounda
ries or limits, or suburbs Neithe
did he ever live there, and so b,
was not included in Herod's de
cree. The Greek words inadequate
ly translated, coasts thereof ar
"horiols autes" which mean bound
aries, limits, borders, edges. or sub
urbs of her." that is of Bethlehem
for she is what call her as tn
'autes' is feminine word g
At this time Herod was havin.
these male children slain only il
Bethlehem and in all her suburban
villages. John was staying in tn
deserts Duke /: 8O) which desert
| am sure were neither in Bethle
hem nor in her suburbs, or bound
aries or borders, for these deserts
mean wildernesses," and who eve
saw three wildernesses in one Httl
city or village?
This word deserts" where job.
was, was SO translated from Luke
plural Greek word "eremois." an
a Greek dual word means two
! while a plural Greek word Away
means three or more, and so &C
cording to Mr.. Griffith this llttl
city of Bethlehem had three grea