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Posted by kew gardens teleport on Tue Feb 19 18:45:25 2013, in response to Re: Atheism (3 in 10 take Bible literally), posted by Olog-hai on Tue Feb 19 18:38:24 2013. "They speak utter nonsense." :-DYes, that doesn't exactly match the others... I actually have the New English Bible (yes, the one with the fart joke) open in front of me, and it says: "It is all harsh cries and raucous shouts, 'A little more here, a little there!'" But maybe you wanted something more conventional, like the ESV: "For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little." Or the HCSB: "For he says: 'Law after law, law after law, line after line, line after line, a little here, a little there.'" Or Challoner: "For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there." Or Knox: "It is ever, Pass the word on, pass the word on, Wait a while yet, wait a while yet, A word with you, here, A word with you, there!" At least Knox has a helpful footnote: "In verses 9-13, the prophet evidently relates a personal experience. It seems as if the dissolute notables of Jerusalem had taunted him, over their wine, with always repeating the same ‘catch’ phrases, like one teaching children to spell, or a stammerer who can get no further with his sentence, or a foreigner who cannot express himself. Some think that ‘he’ in verse 11 is Almighty God, who will ‘speak to’ his people through a foreign invasion, but it seems simpler to understand it of the prophet himself." |
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