[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
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco
>From envy, hatred, and malice and all uncharitableness
Good Lord, deliver us.
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