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Mistranslating Turretin? (3)

Another passage on the “Sinaitic legal covenant” that perhaps could be a little clearer in Giger’s translation. This is paragraph 24, the penultimate paragraph in the section. First, here is Giger: “The promise of the land of Canaan given to the people was not primary and principal, but only secondary and less principal (add by […]

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Archive Authors E.J. Hutchinson Nota Bene Reformed Irenicism Sacred Doctrine

Mistranslating Turretin? (2)

So, another sentence in Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology that struck me as odd in the published English translation (the translation itself is a little awkward and less clear than it might be, but I think that it is the punctuation in particular that was causing me difficulties). It comes at the end of the 15th […]