PAGNINUS AND A WORD OF CAUTION ABOUT BUSHNELL'S QUOTATIONS
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Originally Posted by JaneAnderson
Problem 1 in Genesis 3:16: Turning or Lust?...She discovered that the Hebrew word, “teshuqah,” was translated “turning” in the earliest translations. It remained “turning” for sixteen centuries until Pagnino’s Latin version changed it to “lust.” It then read, “Your lust shall be to your husband and he shall rule over you.” In the seventeenth century, the King James Version softened the translation by using the word “desire,” which is a more genteel rendering with a similar meaning as Pagnino’s word “lust”. Now, in the twenty-first century, the word, “desire,” is used in the vast majority of English Bibles.
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After Wycliffe's version, and before any other English Bible appeared, an Italian Dominican monk, named Pagnino, translated the Hebrew Bible. The Biographie Universelle, quotes the following criticism of his work, in the language of Richard Simon: "Pagnino has too much neglected the ancient versions of Scripture to attach himself to the teachings of the rabbis." What would we naturally expect, therefore? That he would render this word "lust,"—and that is precisely what he does in the first and the third place; in the second, he translates, "appetite."
(GOD’S WORD TO WOMEN, Katharine Bushnell)
Pagniuo has neglected
the old interpreters of Scripture, to attach themselves To the feelings of the rabbis .... He imagined that to make a Faithful translation, it was necessary to To follow the letter exactly and According to the rigor of grammar; this which is wholly opposed to this Alleged accuracy, because it is Rare that two languages meet In their locutions; and so, Far from expressing its originality In the same purity as it is written
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Google translation; though not accurate I have posted it to give a broader context for Richard Simon's critique.)