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Originally Posted by HarryT
It was only when I was able to read them in the original Greek that the meaning became clear. There are some parts of the text which are almost untranslatable.
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1) Show off.
2) I'm pretty fluent in English, but still have a hard time understanding what was meant in stuff written a few centuries ago (even a few decades ago sometimes). Wouldn't genuine understanding require not only being fluent in the language, but in the idiom of the times?
3) Untranslatable? C'mon....2000 years removed or not, these are humans, with human brains, raised in cultures of Earth. I can accept not having a word, or a convenient phrase, but untranslatable? I find that very difficult to believe, Mr. Smart.
ApK