[B-Greek] Mark 3:13-19 Translation Issues
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Nov 15 14:41:37 EST 2005
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:02:10 -0800 "Webb" <webb at selftest.net> writes:
> Dear Dan,
> Sample comment:
> And he ascended into (EIS) the Mountain ...
> No English speaker would use the word "ascended" to describe a
> person
> walking up a mountain. Mountain climbing, maybe... In English you
> say "going
> into the mountains" or "going up the mountain", or "going up on the
> mountain", but never "going into the mountain". English and Greek
> prepositions simply don't correspond one to one, and there is no
> point in
> pretending that they do.
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If I were to read that someone went "into the mountain", I would assume
that he entered a cave or, more likely yet, a mine.
george
gfsomsel
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