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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Interesting Quote
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:33:16 -0700


Matthew,
> GDay all,
>
> This is for Rolf, Dave, Galia, Alverio, etc
>
> I read this morning,
>
> "Why, every one knows that in practice we very often find tenses
> interchanged when time is spoken of; and especially this is the custom in
> Holy Scripture, not only in respect of the past tense, and of the present;
> but even of the future ... It would be a long task to reckon up all the
> expressions of this kind which students have noticed."
>
> St Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th century
> Oration XXIX. The Third Theological Oration. On the Son. (CE 379-381)

:-) Thanks, I needed that. It's good to know that befuddlement is
an ongoing and centuries-old phenomenon...

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
A Bible that's falling apart means a life that isn't.



  • Interesting Quote, Matthew Anstey, 07/21/1999
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    • Re: Interesting Quote, Dave Washburn, 07/21/1999

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