[HPforGrownups] Re:Witches, Warlocks, Wizards, and JKR

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 168752

 
In a message dated 5/15/2007 1:09:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
puduhepa98 at aol.com writes:

BTW  the Papacy was not in favor of the translation of the Scriptures into 
the  vernacular (if you couldn't read Latin, you should not be reading them) 
and  
the King James version was on the Index of Forbidden Books until the  1960's.



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Sherrie here:
 
Many of the priests in Britain (and probably elsewhere) couldn't read Latin  
- or anything else.  They'd learn their offices by rote (some not very  well) 
and gabble through them - which didn't much matter, since the people  hadn't a 
clue what they were saying anyway.
 
As for that infamous Exodus verse in the KJV, the word translated there as  
"witch" is in other places translated as "murderer" or "poisoner".  And  James 
VI & I was both somewhat paranoid of witches and considered  himself something 
of an expert on them (having published a treatise on the topic  some years 
before).
 
Sherrie



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