# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S419
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: YNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 419

o Warn Against RSV as Bible of Modernism

iieREAS, In the Bible of the “National Council of the Churches
in the U.S. A.,” known as the Revised Standard Version,
es along which the revision proceeded” (Preface, p. iv) are
of Modernistic unbelief and disbelief, as shown, e.g., by
vision Committee’s Introduction to the RSV of the Old Testa-
fp. 74, par.3, and p.77, par. 2; etc.), to wit:
* writer [of the Book of Ecclesiastes] does not deny the
or the power of God, yet his is not the God of Judaism
thless and capricious Fate. Logically we should expect
recommend suicide, since he had nothing to fear beyond
ve. Surprisingly, on the contrary, he repeatedly advises
te enjoyment (cf. 1:17b) of whatever outward blessings
ypens to afford (2:24; 5:18; 8:15; 9:7-9). The extreme
sm of the book is alleviated somewhat by a few interpola-
editorial additions. These and the ascription to Solomon
count for its inclusion in the canon.”
ere are at least two reservations which the modern preacher
erly allow himself in preaching from the prophets. The
reference to the harlotries and adulteries of Judah and/or
joes not furnish serviceable metaphors for contemporary
tion. And one is struck by the savage and vindictive venge-
yisited upon enemies round about. The sword of the Lord
tly drunk with the blood of Edom and the like. It may
the writer of Hosea 13:16 was not the tender and forgiving
the earlier part of the book; but the brutal hope that
children of Samaria may be (dashed in pieces’ and ‘their
t. women ripped open’ leaves something to be desired
And
, There are imbedded in the very text of this version
in its footnotes perversions of Holy Scripture which
impair the foundation of Christian faith, e. g.:
the Holy Spirit in Matt. 1:22, 23 expressly testifies that
ken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying: Behold, a virgin
ith child,” etc., the RSV in the text of the Prophet Isaiah
uces the word “virgin” to “young woman.” In Luke 1:34
alsely made to say to the angel: “I have no husband.”
ft.1:25 is made to read simply that Mary bore “a son”;
first-born son.”
'é promise that He was to bless the world through a single
raham, “which is Christ” (Gal. 3:16) is perverted to
romise of God’s blessing the world through Abraham’s
ts” — the Jews (Gen. 22:18; 26:4; 28:14).