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That's a little disengenuous of you don't you think Reg?

I have told you twice now, and IMRight linked you to a version of it online, that the Revised Standard Version uses the same language:

Luke 1:28 - "Hail, Full of Grace."

The Blue Letter Bible you linked me to had this version:

"And he came to her and said, "Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!" RSV

I got the Catholic RSV later and it does confirm what you told me. Please don't hurt my feelings any more. I am very sensitive. ;)
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The RSV is still in use today, and in fact that very passage in the RSV was read at a Mass I attended today.

That versions have crept in echoing the political "bend" and poor translation of protestant bibles in the New American Bible and probably other languages as well is a tragedy to, I'm sure, a vast multitude of Catholics. Just one more reason to clean house.

Are you aware the Catholic RSV is primarily a Protestant Bible with a very few changes from the Protestant original? Why do you find it necessary to belittle the Protestant Bibles? Be pleased with the RSV and be sure to thank the Protestant scholars who compiled it.

Why do you find it necessary to belittle the Protestant Bibles? Be pleased with the RSV and be sure to thank the Protestant scholars who compiled it.

Now you done it, don't you think thier ribs are gonna get tender from all that pokin? :)

I'll be nice if you will. The Blue Letter Bible is decidedly Non-Catholic. All is not lost however. I did find an equally interactive version that has 10 different english Bibles and a slew of major language translations. It's worth a look: The Unbound Bible

WS: another one for you as well.

Be pleased with the RSV and be sure to thank the Protestant scholars who compiled it.

Indeed I do, as I am sure they thanked Jerome for his Vulgate. :-)

The Catholic scholars had to make relativly few corrections. But they did correct that passage. Given the heat the issue raises outside the RC Church, it seems clearly "political" for the RSV(p) to translate the passage as they do.