[B-Greek] GLWSSA
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 24 21:11:02 EST 2004
At 6:03 PM -0800 3/24/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>To all:
>
>I apologize for posting this unclear question. I was
>not wanting to discuss the "gift of" GLWSSA or
>anything theological. I was more just trying to
>understand why modern translations still translate
>GLWSSA as "tongue" when it has the general meaning of
>a "language" (either of people or angels).
They use "tongue" precisely because in 1 Cor 12-14 the speech indicated by
GLWSSA is pretty clearly NOT ordinary human language.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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