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Subject: Re: thou shall not suffer a witch to live

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Eleni

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Date Posted: 15:12:05 05/12/04 Wed
In reply to: silverfox 's message, "thou shall not suffer a witch to live" on 00:31:40 05/05/04 Wed

This is a pretty contentious verse today, as you might imagine. And we have King James I of England (or James VI of Scotland, however you want to call him) to thank for it. He was obsessed with witchcraft and daemonology, so much so that he published a treatise on it himself. In the then-new translation of the Bible which he commissioned, the original Greek "pharmakon" which meant "poisoner" or "maleficent one" became rendered as "witch," solely for James' benefit.

Yes, I am definitively a geek. :\

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