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Old 01-08-2008, 08:54 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by SeattleUte View Post
Given such complications, I can't imagine why JS would have been so lazy as to just plagiarize the KJV. In any event, if there's any concept that would seem to be translatable through all those dead languages and finally into English fairly intact it would seem to be "father." It's not that nuanced. It's about as clean as sex would be.
SU, where in the OT is Father used as a name or title for God? I don't think it used very often ...

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