What Does That Even Mean?!?
Posted by Rey
As you know I like to read, I like to write, and I like to combine both with the Bible (that is reading it and writing about it, not creating new chapters). Some people find reading the Good Book a tad too hard and sometimes, when they hear it being read with monotonous intonations (economics, supply, demand, Peter, James, and John) they find their eyes crossing, their vision blurring and visions of past movies start to replay in their mind.
Bible translators, some will say, should be looking for modern words to make it immediately understandable. Take someone like Peter the Jewish Fisherman who works with Greeks and Company and ask him what a propitiatory is, he’ll tell you right quick. Ask your smart non-Jewish accountant the same question his eyes will start to cross, vision blur
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February 23rd, 2007 at 4:52 pm
OK, but what does pompatus mean? ;)
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Just so people know (I just found out right now) MCF is talking about a certain nonsense word that I always took as a hard to decipher lyric.
March 18th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
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April 3rd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
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