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He fails to make explicit that the portion of Matthew he quotes (1:23) is not just an identical “mistranslation”: Matthew's use of the Greek parthenos is the KJV's authority for the choice of word.
We must be cautious in our assessments of translations to be aware of the subtleties of translation before we too quickly attach the label “mistranslation.”
Jack Orbaum [EPISTOLAE, XVII, 4] wants to make readers aware of what he calls a “mistranslation” in the Bible.
But, is the passage in Matthew a “mistranslation?”
These 20th-century corrections of the original mistranslation cannot, of course, undo the implications that have resulted from translating almah as `virgin' instead of `young woman.