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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
retranslate .
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Examples
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In fact every Authorized Version of the Bible in existence has been retranslated from the original manuscripts.
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These documents reached the Governor of Zamboanga by the _San Fernando_, but he had the original in Arabic retranslated, and found that it did not at all agree with the Sultan's Spanish rendering.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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James Stuart, King of England and Scotland didn't write the bible version that bears his name, but he commissioned the college of scholars who retranslated it from what they had of original sources.
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But you haven't answered my two points either, they are inconvenient to your argument, one being that historically the "bible" as we know it was compiled at the order of Emperor Constantine and subsequently retranslated, re edited and revised frequently usually for political ends.
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And I think that anyone who takes a book that has been retranslated so many times literally is just plain stupid.
Noah nathreee 2009
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James Stuart, King of England and Scotland didn't write the bible version that bears his name, but he commissioned the college of scholars who retranslated it from what they had of original sources.
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But you haven't answered my two points either, they are inconvenient to your argument, one being that historically the "bible" as we know it was compiled at the order of Emperor Constantine and subsequently retranslated, re edited and revised frequently usually for political ends.
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We also are shortchanged because the bible has been retranslated by many different writers for many different ends.
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We also are shortchanged because the bible has been retranslated by many different writers for many different ends.
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It's man-made policy based on broad interpretations and misinterpretations of select, ancient, translated, retranslated and mistranslated texts.
Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make Michele Somerville 2011
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