and a Missed Moment for Teaching
This past Sunday featured a reading from 1 Corinthians 6 that was unfortunately vague in its English translation. The text said, “Avoid immorality,” (1 Corinthians 6:18) hides the more specific meaning of the text. “Avoid immorality?” It may as well have said “Do good and avoid evil.” Nothing could be more vague.
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A Concern for a Vague Translation in the Lectionary
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A Concern for a Vague Translation in the Lectionary
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
Re: A Concern for a Vague Translation in the Lectionary
Not in our lectionary. It clearly states "fornication" not "immorality" as the article highlights.This past Sunday featured a reading from 1 Corinthians 6 that was unfortunately vague in its English translation. The text said, “Avoid immorality,” (1 Corinthians 6:18) hides the more specific meaning of the text. “Avoid immorality?” It may as well have said “Do good and avoid evil.” Nothing could be more vague.
1 Corinthians 6:18
"Keep away from fornication. All the other sins are committed outside the body; but to fornicate is to sin against your own body."
"He who followeth Me, walketh not in darkness." sayeth the Lord