From: Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 28 1997 - 14:21:55 EST
On Sun 28 Dec 97 (00:46:03), wmhboyd@aol.com wrote:
> Now here is one the Greeks. - Why was hEWS translated (in KJV) first
> "to", then "until" and then "unto?" All in one verse!
hEWS is a sort of conjunction of "time up to". It is usually translated "to"
or "till" or "until". There is not just one English word that will cover
all the shades of meaning in every context. See Strong's 2193.
Thank you for your very interesting post on the three 14s. Your professor
taught you well (you *remembered* it!). Did he also suggest that 14 was
the numerical value of DaViD 4+6+4=14?
> William the Barbarian
> (formerly BanjoBoyd)
Surely a gentle Gentile, not a barbarous Barbarian? Strictly, a Barbarian
was one who could not speak Greek; to the Greeks his language sounded like
"Baa-baa-baa", a bleating of the sheep in their ears. Of course, returning
the compliment, the language of Greece was "all Greek" to the Barbarians.
Compare the Russians, who could vaguely understand the other Slavonic
languages like Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croat, Czech, Polish, etc.
But when they got to East Prussia and Germany, they could make no sense
at all of the Teutonic tongue; so they called the Germans NYEMYETZKIYE,
the Dumb ones! Not so dumb...
Happy New Year.
-- Revd Ben Crick, BA CF <ben.crick@argonet.co.uk> 232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK) http://www.cnetwork.co.uk/crick/htm
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