[B-Greek] Off-topic: source for Imperial quote
George F. Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Fri Jun 11 20:12:02 EDT 2004
Sow is hUS which provides a pun on hUIOS.
gfsomsel
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:52:19 -0700 "Barbara D. Colt " <babc2 at comcast.net>
writes:
>
>
> On 11 Jun 2004 at 16:17, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
>
> > Dear George,
> >
> > Thanks. That's a neat quote.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Harold Holmyard
> >
> > >I found this in Schaff _History . . ._, I, ii, ß16. "For such a
> monster
> > >the murder of one or two dozen infants in a little town was a
> very small
> > >matter, . . . .
> > >It is a pun on the similar sounding Greek terms for sow and son
> (?^?
> > >and ????). Kepler already quoted thispassage in confirmation of
> > >Matthew.
>
> Does someone know the word for sow? Of course it doesn't need to be
> a
> pun. Anyone was at risk whom Herod considered a rival, certainly to
>
> include any son past puberty. But he was a Jew of sorts and
> wouldn't have
> been a threat to pigs.
>
> 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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