Comments on: Updated HCSB Text in Print while Website to Get Its Own Updates

By: T.C. R

T.C. R — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:01:50 +0000

It has the potential.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:40:55 +0000

At any rate, I’m looking forward to the HCSB.

Is that a hint about your translation choice?

By: T.C. R

T.C. R — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:00:28 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, Will. June? Such a long wait… At any rate, I’m looking forward to the HCSB.

By: VictorLouis

VictorLouis — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:07:56 +0000

Well, I was excited to see my own pastor having used it for this pas Sunday. The last TWO WORDS OF Romans 12:13 “; puruse hospitality”. He even took the time to explain WHY he used it, as neither the NKJV, nor his preferred NASU had the active voice of the Greek correct. They both rendered it as “practice, or, practicing” hospitality. My NET had the same rendering as the CSB.

In any case, I am rather put off by some of the renderings that have been previewed on the Christian Insights blog, particulary Ephesians 1, and the rearrangement of “In Him…”. However, I will agree that the sentences have been smoothed out.

I DO hope they get out something in Feb. as they have alluded to.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:54:45 +0000

I still get people telling me “I like that translation you’re using”

I love it when people “correct” other translations (“A better way to say this,” or “A better translation is…”), and what they say is exactly what my HCSB has! It happens all the time.

By: Scott/WF

Scott/WF — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:47:22 +0000

I have pre-ordered the new Ministers Bible. Both Amazon and ChristianBooks (among others) are taking pre-orders now but stating that it won’t be available until June 2010. I’m with you Rick, I’m hoping for an earlier release date. I, too, have gone back to the MB as my pulpit Bible (I still get people telling me “I like that translation you’re using”) and I anticipate this updated version will be my “main squeeze” for many years to come.

Blessings,

By: Will

Will — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:52:06 +0000

As I understand it, Rick, there’s a lot that has to happen before the product can actually hit the shelves. We’ll see. Maybe they’ll surprise us with an earlier release!

By: R. Mansfield

R. Mansfield — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:01:34 +0000

If it’s at press right now, I wonder why we wouldn’t see the Ministers Bible until June? I’m hoping for something earlier.

This year, I went back to my HCSB Minister’s Bible as my primary public use Bible. It will be sad to retire it having used it for two weddings, two funerals, and an unknown number of Bible studies and sermons. But I look forward to the new text ironing out the problems of the first printing and using it for at least the next decade or so.