[B-Greek] Urban legends

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 16:02:55 EST 2009


Hi Steve,

I take yours as a rhetoric question with the implicit answer 'yes'.
Yes, it is something to do with 'His tabernacle' = '(God in) flesh' --
the very thing which is worthy to keep in translation.

The word 'tabernacle' is still used ('tent'), though it does not
appear outside the Biblical usage. The word as a verb, however, is
purely Biblish and to the ears of most of English users it would be
very jarring.

I would render the phrase in Jn 1:14 as:

      'He pitched His tabernacle in our midst for a time'.

Oun Kwon.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Steve Petty <selecsteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Is not the significance of "tabernacled" - to live among us as if in a tent (God in flesh)?
>
> Steve PEtty
>
> --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Oun Kwon <kwonbbl at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> A small thought on this particular text. The only problem with the
> word 'tabernacled' is that it's a Biblish, not English.
>
> Otherwise it would be wonderful to keep in the oral nature of the
> biblical text by maintaining connection with the temple/tabernacle
> (tent). The example 'took up residence' (NET, HCSB) may be of a modern
> precise English expression, but fails completely to offer a
> figurative (pictorial) image to the hearers.
>
> Oun Kwon.
> ---



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