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:::Well, if I said that you are ostensibly here to translate the Bible, I'd be implying that you were really here to do something else. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ostensibly  I know that's not the *only* meaning, but I'd like to avoid *any* possible misunderstanding on this point.

:::Well, if I said that you are ostensibly here to translate the Bible, I'd be implying that you were really here to do something else. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ostensibly  I know that's not the *only* meaning, but I'd like to avoid *any* possible misunderstanding on this point.

:::Presumably Mary and others didn't "suppose" (KJV's word) Him to be the literal son of Joseph, either.   

:::Presumably Mary and others didn't "suppose" (KJV's word) Him to be the literal son of Joseph, either.   

Another option might be to say that He *seemed* to be or that he was *apparently* the son of Joseph, which is probably no further from the original and reads a little better.  

:::Another option might be to say that He *seemed* to be or that he was *apparently* the son of Joseph, which is probably no further from the original and reads a little better.  

:::I'm not trying to dumb this down-- replacing complex language with simple would be dumbing down, and I'm not doing that.  I'm just trying to hang on to some of the plainness of the KJV verse.  [[User:AdeleM|AdeleM]] 18:50, 8 November 2009 (EST)

:::I'm not trying to dumb this down-- replacing complex language with simple would be dumbing down, and I'm not doing that.  I'm just trying to hang on to some of the plainness of the KJV verse.  [[User:AdeleM|AdeleM]] 18:50, 8 November 2009 (EST)