CRI Statement
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the Pursuer's Proof of the cross-examination held on Wednesday, November 24, 1954, p. 7, paragraphs A-B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Examining Fred W. Franx, vice-president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and sent as representative of the Society and the Translation Comm.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Q:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Have you also made yourself familiar with Hebrew?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Franz) Yes.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Q:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So that you have a substantion linguistic apparatus at your command?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes, for use in my biblical work.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Q:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I think you are able to read and follow the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">----LATER, DURING THE SAME CROSS-EXAMINATION:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Q:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You, yourself, read and speak Hebrew, do you?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I do not speak Hebrew.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Q:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You do not?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Q:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can you, yourself, translate that into Hebrew?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Which:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Q:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You mean here?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Q:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">We asked a Hebrew teacher at Biola College/Talbot Theological Seminary if the fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis was a particularly difficult verse to translate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, the pursuer's question would hardly have been fair if it were the hardest verse in the Old Testament to translate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The professor said that he would never pass a first-year Hebrew student who could not translate that verse.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p>
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Fred Franz Court Transcripts, November 24, 1954
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Fred Franz Court Transcripts, November 24, 1954
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