Night and Day

GregStffrd at aol.com GregStffrd at aol.com
Thu Feb 10 11:12:13 EST 2000


In a message dated 02/09/2000 9:29:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
pender at wfu.edu writes:

<< The same idiom holds in Greek:  "Day
 speaks to day" is fine in Greek, but English would more likely say "One
 day speaks to the next."   >>


Dear Mary:

No one, so far, has questioned the translation/paraphrase offered by Bart. 
The issue is whether or not such a translation fits in with the context and 
whether or not the resulting translation makes sense, at all. I would be 
interested to know how you believe a day/night could speak/impart knowledge 
to a day/night that was not present. This, to me, seems particularly odd, 
even in a poetic text, when in the context shows that the recipients of the 
speech/knowledge are those on the earth, as I mentioned in my last post to 
Carl. 

Greg Stafford



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