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The whole text of LLV354 The God of 'Amen Edition:
BEHIND THE NAME OF THIS EDITION, LLV354 “The God of 'Amen Edition”: The Hebrew text of Isaiah 65:16 calls YHWH, “Elohe ’Amen” which means “God of ’Amen”. Most English translations have translated this non-literally by substituting a noun ‘truth’ or ‘faithfulness’ for the adjective ’amen. Some Catholic versions have separated the ’amen (‘be blessed in God. Amen!’) which fails to properly render the Hebrew construct state. To the best of my knowledge, this Lawful Literal Version (LLV from edition 354 onwards) is the only English translation that handles the phrase literally, rendering it “(the) God_of ’Amen”. A use of the Hebrew word ’Amen as a noun (written in Greek letters according to Hebrew pronunciation) is found in 2 Corinthians 1:20, and also in Revelation 3:14 where the Anointed Yeshu` calls himself “the ’Amen”. Indeed, Father YHWH is Yeshu`’s God, as he says, “I am_ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God” (John 20:17). So the literal rendering “God of ’Amen” is fitting.
As far as the translator is aware, every name is now spelled with the aim of accurately reflecting the correct, historical pronunciations of these historical names according to modern phonetic English-alphabet transcription, e.g. ‘y’ not ‘j’ for the sound at the start of ‘yellow’, ‘w’ not ‘v’ for the sound at the start of ‘water’. The transcriptions in the LLV are aimed to be better than those of any English translation of Scripture made so far, because they consider not only the pointings of the medieval Hebrew texts but also the older transcriptions in Greek and Latin letters.
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