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Old 04-29-2008, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Diligent View Post
My Random House Websters (1999) Includes "zealous endeavor or assiduous effort" among its definitions for the word -- definition 8 of 26. Is it your position that a Bible must use words which have a single meaning in every case to be found at the "top" of a definition in a modern dictionary? You assume much -- not the least of which is that you actually understand the word you are complaining about, and that you understand why Tyndale and the KJV translators used it. Ho hum...
No. My contention is that “be diligent” more accurately conveys the proper meaning in this passage for readers today.