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Originally Posted by Tithesmeister
The problem with the comma is that it changes the meaning of the phrase. And I care about that. I suspect you should care as well.
If you are saying that the comma is in error, you are saying that the KJV is mistranslated. That in my opinion is a slippery slope. Where do we stop changing the Bible. Is it with punctuation and not words? Or will we also change the words as well as the punctuation?
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The comma does not change the meaning, though due to modern people's lack of English skills some folks may arrive at an erroneous conclusion. It isn't a translation issue (nothing was translated by any comma as there is no comma in the Greek, and Greek commas do not necessarily mean what modern English commas do anyway).
Christ is over all. He is God and He is blessed forever. The phrase "God blessed" as in "blessed by God" does not appear anywhere in the KJV. I haven't found a commentary yet that takes the phrase to mean Christ is blessed by God. Which inclines me to think the interpretation "blessed by God forever" is a modern result of bad English skills.
All commenters seem divided into either "Christ is over all, He is God who is blessed forever", or "Blessed be God forever who is over all". That latter however I believe is sufficiently refuted by both the English and the Greek grammar. The former is a perfectly good rendering of both the Greek and English.