Re: Romans 7:16 SUMFHMI TWi NOMWi hOTI KALOS

From: Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 1997 - 11:17:37 EST


At 09:55 AM 2/18/97 -0600, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>The peasant at the opera in Munich turned to his neighbor and said (mutatis
>mutandis, hochdeutsch freilich hat er nicht gesprochen), "Weisst Du, die
>Haelfte verstehe ich nicht, und was ich verstehe, das verstehe ich auch
>nicht."

This is worth translating: the peasant said "you know, I don't understand
the half of it, and the half that I do understand I don't understand either!"

Jonathan

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