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Originally Posted by Koinonia
"Footnotes" are somebody's opinion. What's so special about a "study bible with footnotes."
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Footnotes, also known as “critical apparatus” among Bible scholars, aid the reader to understand the meaning of the text.
Of course, critical apparatus or footnotes, are the opinion of the writer of the footnotes. For that matter, even the New Testament we own today, even just the text by itself, is the opinion of the translator of a particular version we are reading.
Drake