Exercise 5 Revisited

• Exercise 5 REVISITED moving landmarks or moving boundaries

• Proverbs 22:28 DOES NOT SAY “Do not move the ancient boundary Which your fathers have set.” (NASV) IT DOES SAY “ Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.”

• The modernist translators put here what they thought God meant to say. Which is always the danger of using a modernist bible. The Scripture here is not suggesting the moving of an 'ancient border', but an 'ancient landmark' of a border. The distinction needs to be made, and is easily captured in English.

• There are four times when this Hebrew word for border was translated 'landmark' instead of 'border' (Deu 19:14, in the law, Deu 27:17, in the curse, Prov 22:28 (here) in the wisdom literature, Prov 23:10 in the wisdom literature dealing with the fatherless) This should not be dismissed lightly as done by the modernist versions. A child can tell a landmark (noun) differs from a border (noun)

• Virklers oversimplification in meaning “Do not steal” cannot begin to capture the full intended teaching of this Wisdom Literature for the historical-cultural context wherein it was written. What about 'Do not lie?' What about 'Do not deceive?' What of 'respect your ancient fathers?'

• Virklers errant use of 'border' instead of 'landmark' and his oversimplification of Wisdom Literature into law literature, confounds the very historical-cultural contextual considerations he is trying to illustrate.