Re: OUAI = "DAMN"?

From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Mon Sep 14 1998 - 05:57:00 EDT


At 07:58 AM 9/14/98 +0000, you wrote:

>Isn't there a difference in perspective, if I say "damn you" I am actively
>condemning you, whereas if I say "Woe to you", I am warning you about the
>results of your actions, you are condemning yourselves by not listening and
>repenting?

Of course there is Steve. You are absolutely correct, as is Jonathan in his
supposition that "damn" cannot be supported by the LXX.

> Certainly the end result is the same,

Not really. Someone being warned and someone being damned are, in truth,
two completely different things!

> but the causitive force is
>yourself rather than me. If we are going to translate we can't lose the
>causitive force.
>
>Just my $.02.
>

More than that.

>Steve

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net

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