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Which is better, the NKJV or the Niv 2011?

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Revmitchell said:
I disagree on the NIV simply because it is dynamic equivalent. I do not like nor trust that method.
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not for all passages, though. In Philippians 2:6-8, they use the correct English phrase for μορφῇ, which is "very nature", which removes any confusion with "form", which some argue is "external" (Thayer), and others, "internal" (Gifford).
 
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Saved-By-Grace said:
not for all passages, though. In Philippians 2:6-8, they use the correct English phrase for μορφῇ, which is "very nature", which removes any confusion with "form", which some argue is "external" (Thayer), and others, "internal" (Gifford).
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Do you think the 2011 edition improved the Niv then?
 
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Saved-By-Grace said:
very LIBERAL though, and some of his judgements on textual decisions are way off. Even the textual evidence given in the UBS NT, in places is incomplete and wrong!
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Not a textual decision, but last year I read Bruce Metzger claim that the pericope adulterae was not referenced by any church father prior to the 12th century (A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Hendrickson Publishers, 2005, 188) -- when even I, who doesn't claim to be an expert at anything, could discover that was wrong.
 
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rlvaughn said:
Not a textual decision, but last year I read Bruce Metzger claim that the pericope adulterae was not referenced by any church father prior to the 12th century (A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Hendrickson Publishers, 2005, 188) -- when even I, who doesn't claim to be an expert at anything, could discover that was wrong.
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Yes. Interesting are the facts though. The oldest surviving Greek manuscript that does contain the passage, is of the 5th century, the Codex D. However, in the 4th century, the textual scholar, Jerome, said that it was found in "many Greek and Latin manuscripts", which no doubt are lost, or were destroyed in the fire when the library was burnt in I think the 5th or 6th century. Metzger was/is overrated as a textual scholar.
 
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