# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1185
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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gREAS, There are imbedded in the very text of this version
Bt as in its footnotes perversions of Holy Scripture which
sly impair the foundation of Christian faith, e. g.:

e the Holy Spirit in Matt. 1:22, 23 expressly testifies that
spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying: Behold, a virgin
be with child,” etc., the RSV in the text of the Prophet Isaiah
a reduces the word “virgin” to “young woman.” In Luke 1:34
_ ty. is falsely made to say to the angel: “I have no husband.”
"Matt. 1:25 is made to read simply that Mary bore “a son”;
er first-born son.”

God’s promise that He was to bless the world through a single
d of Abraham, “which is Christ” (Gal. 3:16) is perverted to
mere promise of God’s blessing the world through Abraham’s
descendants” — the Jews (Gen. 22:18; 26:4; 28:14).

8 ‘The Messianic character of Ps. 2:12 is subverted by the removal

‘the words “the Son” from the text of Scripture and substitution
the words “his [God’s] feet” without any foundation whatever,
‘such perversions of the text being designated by the euphemism
“correction” by the RSV Committee. (Cp. also Introduction to the

RSV, OT, p. 58, par. 1.)

In Hab. 2:4, one of the foundation passages of the central Chris-
tian doctrine, justification by faith, a passage which meant so much
in Luther’s life and work — “the righteous shall live by his faith-
fulness,” is proposed in a footnote as a correct reading of the text.
Concerning this passage Dr. Theo. Laetsch in his recently published
Bible Commentary on Jeremiah, a publication of Synod’s official
publication house (1953), rightly testifies (p. 73): “To deny that
the only correct translation of Hab. 2:4 is ‘faith, and not ‘faithful-
ness,’ i.e., faithful performance of one’s duty, is to deny not only
the correctness of Paul’s translation of this term in Rom. 1:7; it
would undermine his entire argument for the doctrine of justifica-
tion, not by any works of man, but solely through faith in the
vicarious atonement effected by Christ Jesus. He would base his
argument for this thesis on a Scripture passage which in fact
teaches the exact opposite: Salvation by faithful performance of
one’s duty. The Holy Spirit, speaking through Paul, certainly knew
what He meant by emunah when He spoke Hab. 2:4 through His
Prophet. (Cp. 1 Peter 1:10, 11.)”

The meaning of the great passage Job 19: 26,-which serves as
a foundation of our faith in the resurrection of the flesh, is declared
“uncertain,” and the words “without my flesh I shall see God” are
substituted for “in my flesh shall I see God.”

The passages 1 Tim. 3:2, 12; 5:9; Titus 1:6 are so perverted as

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