On Wednesday 10 August 2005 15:53, Ben Crick wrote:
> On Wed 10 Aug 2005 (10:56:34), dwashbur AT nyx.net wrote:
> > A much better example of ambiguous subjects would be that wonderful
> > verse in Kings - I can't seem to find it right now but I'm not near
> > any resources and am just doing this off the top of my head, so to
> > speak - where YHWH killed a whole enemy army during the night, and the
> > KJV gives that delightful rendering that goes something like "When
> > they awoke in the morning, they were all dead." As the German soldier
> > said in the movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," ein gute Trick!
>
> 2 Kings 19:35 = Isaiah 37:36
>
> Oh, and it's ein guter Trick.
Thanks, on both counts. I often wondered about the grammar of that German
phrase...
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