Lk:1:76 Temple

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 13 19:08:32 EDT 2002


Forwarded for George Somsel:

>In a message dated 9/13/2002 3:46:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>>Englished and forwarded by CWC to B-Greek for S. Chabert d'Hyères:
>>
>>George Somsel wrote:
>>>>What do you mean by "the square of the men
>>>>and that of the priests . . ."?
>>
>>
>>I used the word "square" instead of "court".
>>
>>Thanks for preparing a lexicon of the terms relating to this plan of the
>>Temple
>>http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/Preaching/Temple.GIF
>>
>>Moving back and forth through four different languages doesn't make it easy
>>for me to manage and correct the erroneous scheme that I have in mind.
>>
>
>I can appreciate the difficulty you experience with several languages
>being involved.  I apparently am haveing enough trouble with English
>alone.  When you wrote "square of the men and priests" my mind went to
>mathmatical terms (The square of the  hypotenuse is equal to the sum of
>the squares of the other two sides).  From that point I was lost and never
>recovered.  It was my mistake to not consider another meaning of "square",
>viz. a public square.  My apologies.
>
>I will attempt to provide a wordlist of the terms used in the diagram you
>referenced, but it may be a couple of days before I am able to get to it.
>
>gfsomsel





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