Passing Thoughts
1.Have you ever taken any notice of the footnotes in your Bible? Wondered if your understanding of a passage would be different if the annotated readings were to be substituted as indicated? There are many ways of telling a story or making a point - and translation is an art not a science!
2.When I write a letter to you or to a group of our friends or associates, I have particular people and circumstances in mind that I know you can relate to. When someone else gets a copy of that letter, quite properly, it remains our letter essentially. So if I receive a letter initially intended for someone else, I have to read it as they were intended to read it in the first instance. Right? Does this have any bearing on my reading of the epistles of Paul and others?