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Re: [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17

From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
To: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:24:20 +0100

On 11/04/2007 22:01, Harold Holmyard wrote:

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HH: I never said it was intended to be "a simply racial religion."

I did not intend to suggest that you did. But it is a position held by some Jews in ancient times, and maybe by some today. However, it was not Isaiah's position, nor Moses' according to your Numbers 15 quotes.

...

I don't see 56:1 "close at hand ... will soon be revealed" as temporal at all, there is no "soon" in the Hebrew but only QAROB which means "near", usually in space.

HH: The word "near" can be used of time:

I know, that is why I wrote "usually". Of course on your interpretation "near" means 800 years in the future, and on Shoshanna's at least 2800.

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Re: [b-hebrew] verb forms - Isaiah 56:6-7 was dying you shall die , (continued)
- [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17, michaelabernat9001, 04/10/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17, Shoshanna Walker, 04/10/2007
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17, Harold Holmyard, 04/10/2007
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17, Peter Kirk, 04/11/2007
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17, Harold Holmyard, 04/11/2007
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17, davidfentonism, 04/11/2007
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Dying, you will die Gen 2:17, Harold Holmyard, 04/11/2007