Cheryl Schatz

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What is also interesting is that the email I received where Hebrews 13:17 was quoted had “authority” in italics which shows that it isn’t in the original so it should have been obvious that authority is not in the text.

I put this one text in the category of 1 Cor. 11 where the words “a symbol of” is added to “authority” to change the meaning of the woman’s authority to that of the woman being under a man’s authority.  I would just rather the translators translated the puzzling verses just the way they are instead of putting their own interpretation into the text.  I go to commentaries when I want interpretation and I go to the biblical text when I want translation.  There is a difference.