[B-Greek] Idiom

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Mon Jan 10 13:38:14 EST 2005



Chesster67 at aol.com wrote:

> B-Greekers,
>
> I need to clarify my question.  The definition of "Idiom" that I have in mind is: "A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements."
>
> Many scholars claim that AIWNOS TON AIWNON is an idiom in this sense.  But "the ages of the ages" seems to make fine literal sense, much as "the holies of the holies" makes literal sense.
>

How does this make literal sense? Or rather, what is the literal sense of both these rather wooden renderings of expressions from a language where adjectival sense is expressed through the use of  "of phrases"?

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson



>
> Gabe Chesster

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