LSB Asterisk incorrectly removed as a footnote
Tony
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Request for the Asterisk to remain when you remove footnotes in reformatting. It's helpful for reading and it is not a footnote indicator.
For those who don't know, an asterisk in the LSB indicates that a verb translated in past tense is actual historical present in the Greek. I believe the NASB has this too.
This means you can translate it in your head as you read. It makes for a more dramatic (as intended) read, especially in Mark.
E.g. "Such and such walked* into the market and said* 'can I buy a sack of potatoes?'" becomes "Such and such walks into the market and says 'can I buy a sack of potatoes?'"
It is used in modern English.
Even better would be an option to convert those words to the historical present where an asterisk is present.
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