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  • From: davidfentonism AT aim.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Uncancelable meaning
  • Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:57:59 -0400

I think this depends on how you construct "fexibility". As you know well,
Hebrew letters and roots have embedded meaning which inform the words they
form and that those embedded meanings in the letters and roots are
'uncancellable'. However, those very same 'uncancellable' letters and roots
are dynamic, having a range of meaning. It is in this way that I perceive
Bill's proposition. Thanks, Peter.

David Fenton
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Gal. 27-29: For as many as have had a tevilah into Moshiach have clothed
yourselves with Moshiach. There is not Yehudi nor Yevani (Greek), there is
not eved (servant) nor ben chorin (freedman), there is not zachar (male) nor
nekevah (female), for you are all echad in Moshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua. And, if
you belong to Moshiach (YESHAYAH 53:10), then you are of the ZERAH of Avraham
Avinu, you are yoreshim (heirs) according to the havtachah (promise).
-----Original Message-----
From: peter AT qaya.org
To: bill.rea AT canterbury.ac.nz
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Uncancelable meaning

On 29/03/2007 23:12, Bill Rea wrote:
> ...
>
> I've known this is your understanding for a long time. The problem
> seems to be either that people can't see how flexibility and
> uncancelability are not mutally exclusive, ...

The words are mutually exclusive on the logical level. If something
cannot be cancelled, that implies no flexibility. If there is
flexibility, it means that the something can be cancelled. And Rolf has
made it clear many times that by "uncancellable" he does not mean "only
rarely cancelled". It is he who is insisting that there is no
flexibility here, so that one counter example which is not an
arbitrarily defined "special usage" is enough to disprove an alternative
hypothesis.

--
Peter Kirk


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