Mt. 16:22

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Sun Jun 24 19:19:50 EDT 2001


In a message dated 6/24/01 10:59:20 PM, theomann at earthlink.net writes:
>
>>Mt. 16:22:  I don't understand how the NIV gets "Never, Lord," and the
>>KJV gets "Be it far from Thee, Lord," out of hLEWS SOI, KURIE.      Is
>there
>>an idiom here I don't understand?  Both the NASB and NRSV have "God forbid
>>it, Lord," but shouldn't it be something like "Let [God] be gracious to
>You,
>>Lord"?
>>
>Louwe & Nida have the following paragraph;
>
> (an idiom, literally ‘mercy to you’) a highly elliptical expression 
equivalent
>in meaning to the statement ‘may God be merciful to you in sparing you
>from having to undergo some experience’ — ‘God forbid it, may it not happen.'
>hLEWS SOI, KURIE ‘may it not happen to you, Lord’ Mt 16:22.
>
>This makes sense to me.
>
>Carlton Winbery
>Louisiana College
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