HO LOGOS - The Marshal(ler)

AgapeLove9 at aol.com AgapeLove9 at aol.com
Tue Jul 7 23:44:20 EDT 1998


Pardon my late response. I can only respond once daily. So, pardon me if it
appears as though I am elongating a thread when really I am not.

I found this Translation's footnote on "Marshal" persuading. Please give
feedback as to whether LOGOS could have a reference to "putting in order"
"marshalling" rather than to a spoken word, which is the unquestioning
assumption of many. Isn't this similar to those lego (LEGW) blocks implying
"assembling?"

Larry Swain wrote:
>>It is rather interesting to me that in one breaath he defends his
translation as "literal" and anyone who disagrees with the translation then
of course isn't being literal.  At the seame time is this new "word" or idea
deposited "Marshal"....interesting indeed.<<

The Translation has a Preface that explains the reason for the twofold
translation approach. Most translations take a compromise approach between
literal and free. The preface says that this translation tries to avoid that
compromise by presenting both a literal translation and a free one. I did not
get the impression that the literal translation was THE literal translation.
Rather, the preface says: "There have been very few if any literal
translations in English since the notable one made by Robert Young in 1862
with later revisions." He continues later: "In the literal translation the aim
has been to adhere to the original text as closely as possible, and in
particular, to preserve the mood, tense, voice, and intensity of verbal forms,
as well as conveying shades of meaning of other words that are often lost."


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