08-01-2013, 08:46 PM
gregglaser:
Thank you VERY MUCH!
First, hello to everyone. It's been a long time since I've been on site. I hope everyone is OK.
2. Your analysis of Matthew 7: 13 has a great deal of value.
You write: " Moreover, in this same verse (Matt 7:13), the Aramaic word ?mubla? is translated as ?leads? (?broad is the road that leads to loss and many are those who go in it?). This word ?mubla? can also be translated as ?merchandise?, ?cargo?, or ?burden?. "
I vote for "Merchandise" and ESPECIALLY "Cargo".
3. Consider Mark 9: 42 (Younan):
[42] and anyone who causes to stumble one of these little ones who believe in me better it would be for him if the millstone of a donkey were placed on his neck and he were cast in the sea."
Question: In New Testament times, was there anyone who cast a giant millstone in the sea?
YES!! In fact, many.
In Josephus 15, 9, 6, the tale is told of Herod rebuilding a small seaside city into Caesarea. The problem is that the waves are too high, it's windy and the ships cannot find safe harbor:
"So Herod endeavored to rectify this inconvenience, and laid out such a compass towards the land as might be sufficient for a haven, wherein the great ships might lie in safety; and this he effected by letting down vast stones of above fifty feet in length, not less than eighteen in breadth, and nine in depth, into twenty fathom deep; and as some were lesser, so were others bigger than those dimensions. This mole which he built by the sea-side was two hundred feet wide, the half of which was opposed to the current of the waves, so as to keep off those waves which were to break upon them, and so was called Procymatia, or the first breaker of the waves..."
4. There is more to this story but I get into trouble when I go too far for the good sensibilities on this site. Be that as it may, look now at Matthew 7: 13 - 14 (Aramaic, Etheridge):
"ENTER in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the way, that conducteth to destruction; and they are many who go therein. How small is the gate, and narrow the way, that leadeth unto salvation; and they are few who find it !
So close! Coupled with the Mark verse, we get another dose of how much Herod was despised.
But we knew that! It appears that the lesson here flows from Herod the Evil again.
5. PY: I've finished a manuscript and I use something from your Interlinear. How would you like this footnoted? Or would you prefer that I not use your work?
Thank you all!
CW
Thank you VERY MUCH!
First, hello to everyone. It's been a long time since I've been on site. I hope everyone is OK.
2. Your analysis of Matthew 7: 13 has a great deal of value.
You write: " Moreover, in this same verse (Matt 7:13), the Aramaic word ?mubla? is translated as ?leads? (?broad is the road that leads to loss and many are those who go in it?). This word ?mubla? can also be translated as ?merchandise?, ?cargo?, or ?burden?. "
I vote for "Merchandise" and ESPECIALLY "Cargo".
3. Consider Mark 9: 42 (Younan):
[42] and anyone who causes to stumble one of these little ones who believe in me better it would be for him if the millstone of a donkey were placed on his neck and he were cast in the sea."
Question: In New Testament times, was there anyone who cast a giant millstone in the sea?
YES!! In fact, many.
In Josephus 15, 9, 6, the tale is told of Herod rebuilding a small seaside city into Caesarea. The problem is that the waves are too high, it's windy and the ships cannot find safe harbor:
"So Herod endeavored to rectify this inconvenience, and laid out such a compass towards the land as might be sufficient for a haven, wherein the great ships might lie in safety; and this he effected by letting down vast stones of above fifty feet in length, not less than eighteen in breadth, and nine in depth, into twenty fathom deep; and as some were lesser, so were others bigger than those dimensions. This mole which he built by the sea-side was two hundred feet wide, the half of which was opposed to the current of the waves, so as to keep off those waves which were to break upon them, and so was called Procymatia, or the first breaker of the waves..."
4. There is more to this story but I get into trouble when I go too far for the good sensibilities on this site. Be that as it may, look now at Matthew 7: 13 - 14 (Aramaic, Etheridge):
"ENTER in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the way, that conducteth to destruction; and they are many who go therein. How small is the gate, and narrow the way, that leadeth unto salvation; and they are few who find it !
So close! Coupled with the Mark verse, we get another dose of how much Herod was despised.
But we knew that! It appears that the lesson here flows from Herod the Evil again.
5. PY: I've finished a manuscript and I use something from your Interlinear. How would you like this footnoted? Or would you prefer that I not use your work?
Thank you all!
CW