Wrong again jbe! I never quoted once from the great Christian and Russian linguist, Father Prainaitis. I read Fr. Prainaitis's translation of anti-Christian passages over twenty years ago. He did have some minor errors in his translation, but overall, it was accurate. You have chosen a very weak anti-Christian Jewish site to attempt to disprove Fr. Prainaitis? Is this the level of scholarship you generally maintain?
Academic communities can give us the tools to research but they cannot
give us the two most important ingredients for an historian:
1)A sense of judgment.
2) A love of truth.
I've observed you carefully. You have a great writing style, you have a moderate amount of love for truth, but almost no sense of judgment. To become a truly great historian, the thing you obviously seek, you will have to have greater judgement and love for truth. But there lies your dilemma! Only God can give man that deep love of truth and sense of judgement that is needed to be a truly great historian. You need an internal eye to discern between the dated noise and the hidden and timeless events that are shaping history and the future. Without the wisdom of God, this is an impossible task. In the early Christian era, hundreds of talented historians who lacked this sense of judgment and love, were unable to grasp the seed of the future in those germinating Christian communities. Eusebius, who wrote the first history of the Church (The History of the Church from Christ to 325), had very modest skills of writing and style, but he possessed a very great sense of judgment, and an extreme love of truth. He had that internal eye that helped him discern the kernel from the chaff.
First, this allowed Eusebius to write a classic because he was able to determine what was truly important among the vast number of possible events. His love of truth helped him include only documents and information he honestly considered valuable and authentic. This is why his work became a classic and survived the ages. Hundreds of greater writers who lacked his love of truth and sense of judgement were swept into anonymity by posterity by time and reality. When your ear is too closely tuned to the pc crowd of any generation, you generally miss the more important events and critical issues that are shaping history right before your blind eyes.
Anyway, let me conclude by saying emphatically that Fr. Prainaitis's translation was, in essence, correct. Prainaitis was somewhat of a pioneer in exposing the anti-Christian teachings of the Talmud in Russia.
I've been studying the Soncino edition of the Talmud for some twenty five years. I quote most frequently from this English edition of the Talmud. I am by no means an expert, but I've checked and cross checked the references I quote for accuracy. I would strongly suggest that you do more research before posting foolish Jewish propaganda. |
