The Bible gets to the heart of things.
It also gets to the gut of things.
We\u2019ve ?smoothed over? some nitty-gritty things of life by changing words from older translations to soften the reader impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cfilthy rags\u201d (menstrual cloths) – to – \u201cpolluted garment\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cdung\u201d – to – \u201crubbish<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cbowels\u201d – to – \u201cmercy, deep compassion\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201ckidneys\u201d – to – \u201cinmost being?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cpeculiar\u201d people – to – \u201cchosen\u201d people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bible gets to the heart of things.It also gets to the gut of things.We\u2019ve ?smoothed over? some nitty-gritty things of life by changing words from older translations to soften the reader impact. \u201cfilthy rags\u201d (menstrual cloths) – to – \u201cpolluted garment\u201d \u201cdung\u201d – to – \u201crubbish \u201cbowels\u201d – to – \u201cmercy, deep compassion\u201d \u201ckidneys\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,14,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-health","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7898,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}