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377. We must recall that every translator of the Bible, throughout Church history has been a male;[1] and sex bias came into existence very early in human history. In fact the sin in the garden at once affected the love between the sexes, and Adam sought to show excellence beyond Eve. Says the German divine, Dr. Lange, in his Commentary on Genesis: “The guilt proper is rolled upon woman [by Adam], and indirectly upon God Himself . . . The loss of love that comes out in this interposing of his wife is, moreover, particularly denoted in this, that he grudges to call her Eve or my wife . . . ‘That woman by my side, she who was given to [be with] me of God as a trusty counselor, she gave me the fruit.’” . . . “An acknowledgement of sin by Adam, but not true and sincere.” Secondly, Adam generated, by his unholy ambition, a desire to “as God” which will never cease to exist in human nature until that Wicked One “sets himself forth as God,” in the very Temple of God, and is destroyed by Christ’s second coming. And since sex bias is of old, and also the masculine desire to rule, every version of the Bible, beginning with the first one¾the Septuagint Greek version¾reflects from its pages the sinful nature, in this regard, of those who have made the translation. It is beyond our province, however, to enter upon all the versions,¾only upon the English.

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