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What the KJV translates as "behold" can properly be translated as "at that moment" in modern English, depending on context. And the context is crystal clear that the two events happened at ...
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===(Matthew 27:51) The ''New International Version'' starts the verse with ''At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn..'', but this ''at that moment'' seems to be a translation of the leading καὶ (in fact of the string of καὶ-καὶ-καὶ), while ἰδού is dropped from the sentence altogether - as you observed rightly in [[Bible Translation Issues]]. Isn't it a little bit unsettling that this crucial ''nuance'' of ἰδού is used in CBP's translation for the first and only time in Matthew 27:51, a verse which is used later on in [[Counterexamples to Relativity]]?===
 
===(Matthew 27:51) The ''New International Version'' starts the verse with ''At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn..'', but this ''at that moment'' seems to be a translation of the leading καὶ (in fact of the string of καὶ-καὶ-καὶ), while ἰδού is dropped from the sentence altogether - as you observed rightly in [[Bible Translation Issues]]. Isn't it a little bit unsettling that this crucial ''nuance'' of ἰδού is used in CBP's translation for the first and only time in Matthew 27:51, a verse which is used later on in [[Counterexamples to Relativity]]?===
 
:::[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 12:49, 17 April 2011 (EDT)
 
:::[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 12:49, 17 April 2011 (EDT)
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: August, translations don't simply erase words.  What the [[KJV]] translates as "behold" can properly be translated as "at that moment" in modern English, depending on context.  And the context is crystal clear that the two events happened at the same time ... otherwise one would expect some description of a delay.
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: At one point someone asked you ''what the physical mechanism would be if there were a delay''.  Could you answer that question?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 11:42, 30 April 2011 (EDT)
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