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  • From: c stirling bartholomew <cc.constantine AT worldnet.att.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] BRCH What am I driving at?, Vol 1, Issue 13
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:27:01 -0800

on 1/23/03 11:17 AM, watts-westmaas wrote:

> So back to BRCH; If the whole concept of 'To Be Blessed' is entwined within
> the image of being kept washed, kept refreshed, kept re-vitalised and kept
> pure, then this can be deduced from its root with 'A Spring' and the images
> connected with that - a fountain within created from above to be shared, if
> however its root is consistent with 'To Kneel' then one is left with other
> images of kneeling in order to receive something from someone greater than
> yourself. Language is, after all, about the communication of mental
> pictures and feelings and words are simply the means by which we TRY to do
> this.

This may be what one is taught in homiletics but it is a prime example of
what is not permitted in lexical semantics.

greetings, clay

--
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062




  • Re: [b-hebrew] BRCH What am I driving at?, Vol 1, Issue 13, c stirling bartholomew, 01/23/2003

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