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Introduction to the BibleTexts.com Bible Commentary The textual commentary included in The BibleTexts.com Bible Commentary is based upon the United Bible Societies' definitive Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Hebrew Old Testament), Septuaginta (Greek Old Testament), and Greek New Testament (Third and/or Fourth Revised Edition), and includes clarifications and corrections to the King James Version wording. All of the New Testament textual commentary articles in the BibleTexts webpages are in complete agreement with the findings published in Bruce M. Metzger's definitive A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Second Edition, New York: United Bible Societies, 1994. The purpose of a "textual commentary" is (1) to reconstruct the original wording of the original texts (i.e., the earliest ancient Hebrew or Greek biblical texts) and then reassess the appropriateness of subsequent translated wording into modern languages; and/or (2) to detail the history of the transmission of the text from the time of its first appearing to the present. This textual commentary also provides readers with many of the corrections needed to enable the KJV to better reflect the original texts. (For details on the KJV see http://www.bibletexts.com/kjv-tr.htm.) Excerpts from this commentary that are relevant to the weekly Bible Lesson are made freely available each week in the Bible Lesson Study Aid. The information contained therein will help you read the Bible Lesson with a greater familiarity with the original texts behind the Bible passages.

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