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SO: what's the difference?



2 Timothy 2:15 [AKJV]:  "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

I have been taught and led to understand that there is a difference in "rightly dividing" and "handling"; "the word of truth", this is what thus far I have discovered which has been more difficult than suspected in the beginning.

Definition:  "Divide"  verb:  to separate into two or more parts.  
  "Handle"  verb:  to try or to examine 

Few translations have "dividing" as their defining word.  Most use "handling" and in so using try to make it sound more pliable to the reader.  Here are a few of the uses as to dumb down the verse.  
Correctly teaching, straight forwardly, cutting a straight line, one who applies the true teaching, on and on it goes.  More can be seen at Biblegateway.com.  Following the prompts do word studies and follow the rabbit trails.

This is one of the reasons I’m a King James Bible reader.

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