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Kay, no one knows the validity of the claim, because the letter has never been produced. Nor has Liddel and Scott seen fit to comment publicly. All of it is coming from those who wish to deny the meaning. Spurious at best IMO.

At any rate, how does one print something that doesn’t exist anyway. IMO Grudem put pressure upon the publishers and they responded. It does not mean they agreed. It surely does not mean that the scholars who inserted the reference now deny it as Grudem would like us to believe.

I have a 1909 copy of a Schofield Bible. In Genesis 17, they have a rather long and very strong statement in a footnote about the meaning of El Shaddai being from the Heb. word shad, which is breast. God is referred to as the breasted one for very solid Biblical reasons. And yes, it does give validity to the value of feminine. But the newer copies of the Schofield have omitted this. This does not mean that Schofield changed his mind. 🙂 Once an author dies, publishers do take liberties. And publishers don’t care about the facts, only sales.