Well, I finally moved into my new apartment on the 11th floor of M.D. Anderson late Tuesday night. The bathroom is a little cramped but it's clean enough. It's the treatment for which I came, and I am receiving it indeed! Now, I've had chemotherapy before, and have tolerated it pretty well, but when they tell you to chew on ice chips for a couple hours so the chemo doesn't burn your mouth from the inside out, you know you're dealing with a whole new class of drug. Interestingly, the drug I took today, Melphalan, is a mustard derivative. You know, war crime stuff. Tomorrow I get a drug called Thiotepa, which requires me to shower several times throughout the day and afterward to prevent the skin from being burned as it can come out in my sweat. Naturally, I follow my orders trusting that the Good Lord has placed me here in the care of these wonderful doctors for a reason.
...and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Rom 5:5)
-from the RSV Catholic 2nd ed.
This and the Douay-Rheims are really the best two translations available with the 2010 NIV update and the NKJV running close behind as newcomers to the biblical realm of scholarly translation attempts, in the name of ecumenism. Although Protestants still refuse to translate 'full of grace' properly in Luke 1:28, these are very readable translations, just as is the evangelical ESV (my favorite evangelical translation) all of which have put 'virgin' back as the correct translation of Is. 7:14. Maybe St. Jerome knew a thing or two about Scripture after all!
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