[B-Greek] Idiom
Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Mon Jan 10 17:30:00 EST 2005
Chesster67 at aol.com wrote:
> Jeffrey Gibson wrote: <<<<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"?>>>>
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> Although I do not see why you consider these phrases to be wooden, it seems to me that the literal meaning of "hagia ton hagion" could be interpretted as something like "the innermost holy chambers of the tabernacle" and that "aiwnos ton aiwnon" must similary be understood as the final ages out of the aggregate of ages. What do you think?
They are wooden because their form is dictated not by how a Greek, following proper Greek syntax, would express what you think the terms express, but by a desire to produce the word order and the syntax of the Hebrew expression they translate. And obviously, what you think they express is hardly what the expressions convey when their Greek
form is read "literally".
Yours,
Jeffrey Gibson
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