[B-Greek] 1 Cor 1:26

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Thu Mar 17 10:13:12 EST 2005



Carlton Winbery wrote:

> Huh, I thought my translation above did that very well. "Consider . . 
> ." means "You consider . . ." All imperatives in English are second 
> person and do not distinguish the singular from the plural so the verb 
> alone in English can be used to "command" someone to do or think 
> something. Is that what you are asking? If I say "Go," it can mean for 
> a whole class to go or for a single person to go. The audience we 
> assume knows itself.
>
Thanks for your clarification- nevertheless "consider" doesn't 
necessarily connote an imperative sense. /Consider/ suggests objective 
reflection and reasoning: He considers success to be of little 
importance. /Deem/ is more subjective, emphasizing judgment rather than 
contemplation: The faculty deemed the essay to be acceptable. /Regard/ 
often implies a personal attitude: I regard your apology as genuine. 
/Account/ and /reckon/ in this sense are literary and imply calculated 
judgment: “I account no man to be a philosopher who attempts to do more” 
(John Henry Newman). “I cannot reckon you as an admirer” (Nathaniel 
Hawthorne).

All imperatives in English are an understood second person but 
"consider" is not necessarily an imperative. Hence using "consider" to 
render what one perceives to be an imperative might not be as clear as 
another possibility.

Best

Jim

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