Hi DM ............. DM Smith wrote: > If we were ever to get The Message Bible (which I'd love) I think that we'd > want the verses to be stored and searchable individually but have the > verse numbers optionally displayed. With JB Phillips, I think it is similar > in that it is a display issue that some verse numbers not display. There never was a published Phillips edition with all the verse numbers. This was quite deliberate on Phillips' part as he wanted his numbering to reflect the sense of the passage. Quite deliberately he divided the text at logical points and this allowed him to be far more free in his use of English. He felt quite strongly that the artificial verse divisions that were appropriate for the KJV did in fact become quite restrictive when making a completely new translation. As the Greek does not have divisions of any sort, he used blocks of verses to give him the translational freedom he needed. I applaud that. However, getting the missing verse numbers into the text would be difficult: but it would also be doing violence to the translator's intentions. I think for Phillips, we would have to stick with what is written!
God bless, Barry -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for our church homepages). Replies - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
