The role of the lexicon

From: Maurice A. O'Sullivan (mauros@iol.ie)
Date: Fri Jan 03 1997 - 06:15:18 EST


May I share a reminiscence with the list members which bears happily on the
role of the lexicon?.

Some years ago, a distinguished Irish scholar, Dr. George Otto Simms, who
was also the retired Anglican Archbishop of Dublin, spoke at a meeting of
the National Bible Society of Ireland. He was responding to the first
Bedell-Boyle
lecture given by Dr. Donal Murray, one of the auxiliary bishops of the
Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.

In the course of his response, Dr. Simms told his audience of a remark made
by " my tutor, Hoskyns, at Cambridge", to the effect that " to bury oneself
in a Greek lexicon is to rise with Christ ".

I have now been told by a friend in Oxford, that that tutor was:
Sir Edwyn Clement [13th Baronet] Hoskyns (1884 - 1937), who
was dean of Chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and a
distinguished NT scholar.

So, now that we have the full provenance of the quotation, feel free to use
it -- I think it makes a most appropriate 'sig-line' for this particular
mailing list.

Regards,

Maurice

Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros@iol.ie

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