[B-Greek] RE: [B-Greel] Hebrews 3.11; 4.3,5

Barbara D. Colt babc2 at comcast.net
Thu Dec 30 00:25:11 EST 2004


On 30 Dec 2004 at 12:50, craig wrote:
> 
> When I had to translate it last year, I thought the idiom in Hebrews 
might be
> captured by the modern phrase 'as if...!':
> 
> "As if they will enter into my rest!"
> 
Maybe, but if someone didn't mentally hear with the right inflection, it 
would be likely to be misunderstood (or not understood at all).  At least I 
sometimes find modern Americans a bit dense when it comes to any idioms 
other than the very newest.




Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at comcast.net
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