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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>GREEK
INTERLINEAR NT FORMAT & PRINTING</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>HISTORY
BEHIND THIS FORMAT</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>January
10, 2011</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>December
7, 1941 was critical in the Days of World War II, especially for
Britain. Pearl Harbor brought the US and Britain together as Allies.
Churchill immediately came over to the States to consult with FDR re
finishing off Hitler in Europe, before taking on Japan in the
Pacific. This was agreed upon.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>While
Churchill was in America, he was invited to address the joint houses
of Congress: both Senate and House of Representatives. He introduced
his speech by saying - that if the role of his parents had been
reversed: and his father was American and his mother English - he
might have made it over here as an American on his own!</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>Following
his speech, a cub reporter spotted that he had inadvertently dropped
one of its pages. He nabbed it, and it was printed on the front page
of leading newspapers across America.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>There
were no speech writers in Churchill's day, and he agonized over every
word of each speech. (Lincoln followed the same pattern.) He first
dictated it to his secretary. Then he took this copy and worked it
over strongly - even word by word, making changes even up to speech
time.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>The
final copy is set out in “blank verse format”,</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>set
out like the book of Psalms.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>It
looks like poetry, it brings it to life,</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>It
gives him, I think, the rhythm -</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>it
enables that great Churchill oratory.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>Now
here Behind the “Blood, sweat and tears” speech,</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>that
is no more evident than in the final page.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>But
on December 7, 1941, Dr. Peter Marshall, Pastor of New York's famous
Presbyterian Church, was asked to speak at West Point Military
Academy to the young Cadets. He felt he just had to change his
message at the last moment, and received permission to do so. It was
a message exactly fitting for young men who would within hours be
called up to war - many losing their lives!</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>By
the end of the decade he had the honor of being chosen as Chaplain of
the US Senate. Before he was 50, he died of a heart attack. His widow
Catherine wrote his biography, “A Man Called Peter,” but first
she selected 10 of his sermons and entitled the book, “Mr. Jones -
Meet the Master!” </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>From
the “Preface” we read the following words - “Printed sermons
are often as uninteresting as warmed-over potatoes. This is because
they are designed to be heard, and are dependent on the preacher's
personality for much of their effectiveness.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"> <b>In
the pages which follow, these difficulties have been largely
surmounted by the use of <u>an unusual format</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
Peter Marshall always preached with a complete manuscript before him.
These sermons have been set up just as his manuscripts were typed.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dr. Trevor Mordecai,
formerly pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham,
Alabama, who first suggested this form to Dr. Marshall twenty years
ago.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Originally intended for ease in reading, the style eventually
became an integral part of Peter Marshall's work. It adapted itself
to his vivid imagination and strong poetic streak.</b></p>
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<b>On the printed page it conveys much of the force of his
personality make articulate, almost audible, the written word. We
believe that this style will add much to your reading enjoyment.”</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Catherine in 1949 felt God leading her to print up these 10
sermons in this format.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>In 1941 I cut out and filed away Churchill's printed fallen
Manuscript page of this form of speech. Since then I have used his
format to preparing this Interlinear Greek manuscript.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Then in 1945 I received a Commission from God to prepare a
manuscript to fulfill Ivan Panin's dream: An Interlinear Greek NT
using his Greek and English Bible Numeric texts.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>I had prepared the full NT/MS by 1967; I had typed up his entire
English NT on the above format, and inserted by hand the entire Greek
NT. I then outlined it all sentence by sentence - summarizing these
into paragraph subdivision; these into paragraphs; these into
sections or chapter equivalents; and these into complete NT Book
Summaries.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">While
in the above process, I heard God's voice, “Get </span><u>My</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
NT done!” I flew out of bed very early in the morning, and have
worked to fulfillment ever since. I brought my wife Marie to Pilot
Baseball games in Seattle in the early 60's, and while she watched, I
inserted the Greek text into this format, plus the titling and
summarizing process. I even missed a grand-slam by pitcher
Broadbender!</span></b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Then in 2007 I got the word to put all of this on computer,
transliterating the Greek text. I finished this task 3 years later,
December 31, 2010.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Printers have now come to plan the printing of this unusual work.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>I felt God gave the format for the project back in 1941 before I
was even a believer, through Winston Churchill, and confirmed in 1949
through Peter Marshall.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>I acknowledge that their format uses up much more space than
“prose”. But for laymen who have a problem picking up main and
subordinate clauses from prose - this poetic type of format makes it
easy to see these sentence relationships.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Not only that, but as one reads this text like a Churchill speech
or a Peter Marshall sermon - it enables that same Churchill oratory
or Peter Marshall preaching to come to the lay-reader. It works for
scholars too!</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><u>Problem</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
Now to conserve space in the printing process - what can be done to
preserve God's original intent in this format - and yet meet the
practical demands of the Printer to conserve space and cut costs?</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Just as in Congress - bills are debated and adjusted, so that
reasonable compromise can be met.</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>We could eliminate spaces between sentence and paragraph
subdivision. That would be a large saving. We could cut spaces
between paragraphs and section or chapter equivalents.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>In short clauses or sentences, we could have the Greek
transliteration share the line with the English.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>We could ensure that all one line sentences have the English serve
dual duty as “titles” as well.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>In shorter clauses, we could put them together.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>All of this would save a great amount of space - yet without
compromising the Churchillian and Peter Marshall “blank verse”
format.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>I will set up several pages showing these revision and present to
our printers. They are not only business men - but also prophetic. I
am sure that in the light of God's interest in all of this for
laymen, that this possibly could tend to come much closer to their
practical goals.</b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">If
you as readers will go to our Website <</span><a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/"><u>www.2rbetter.org</u></a><span style="text-decoration: none;">>
and click on Interlinear, the full NT has now been posted there.
Casually, or even closely, look it over. See if these adjustment
could be made while yet retaining the original integrity. Please let
us know.</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Direct links to PDF files.</b></p>
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<b>Original: <a href="http://2rbetter.org/other/Matthew_5:1-16.pdf">http://2rbetter.org/other/Matthew_5:1-16.pdf</a></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Condensed: <a href="http://2rbetter.org/other/Matthew_5:1-16-condensed.pdf">http://2rbetter.org/other/Matthew_5:1-16-condensed.pdf</a></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>I have contacted another author in this regard. He believes God
will give a word of wisdom that will satisfy God's heart, my heart,
the heart of the printers - and you too as readers!</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>We do need this Interlinear Greek NT production in print in the
not too distant future. There are some 250 prayer groups in Canada
numbering up to 2000 - in cities, towns and villages right across the
Dominion. They undergird mayors and councils in weekly prayer in
these venues. They could profitably use this Key Component part of
the Spiritual Star Wars Effect that comes from God's Automated Laser
Telescope.</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>That would have to be multiplied by ten or much more to meet the
needs of the Untied States. Already a man from Pakistan, proficient
in both Urdu and Hindi, has offered to translate this into these two
languages. Ken Taylor's Living Bible went into some 40 languages.</b></p>
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<b>It does seem that God delayed Ivan Panin's hope of a soon
production of this in 1941 - that it might have a special effect for
the end of this age and the return of His Son. - Jim Watt</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">P.S.
This is </span><u>not</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> my
Interlinear Greek NT - nor is it even Ivan Panin's Bible Numeric
Greek and English texts. He merely discovered in the late 1890's what
God had put in His Hebrew Bible text 4000 years ago, and the Greek
text 3000 years ago. Panin even wasn't the first to discover this.
Dr. Astruc of France, a physician, discovered it among others a
century before. Panin merely obeyed God in producing these two texts.
I have merely obeyed God in putting these two together. It is </span><u>God's</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Interlinear Greek NT for His last days purposes! JW. </span></b>
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