What's your favorite Bible preposition?

[Nato]

Boy, another thread just reminded me of how much I missed doing sentence diagrams with a bible verse! Remember, if you were in a pinch for a teaching that you had to give at fellowship, you could just pick a staple verse and take it apart word-for-word. Good times. Remember that card we got at an AC special or something that had that diagram of Greek words? It had a circle and other markings, along with the Greek word for each symbol's status.

My favorite word from a young age was "pros", which I was told by my twig coordinator meant "together with, but distinctly independent of". OK, whatever.

I really should have gone to Jesus Camp. That would have probably been more fun. At least there I could wear camo facepaint and do interpretive dance about the book of Judges.

[Oakspear]

I still have that diagram; just checked it. Even though Wierwille defined pros as "together with, yet distinctly indpendent of", the diagram just says "toward" for pros.

Yeah, I know, "so what?"

[another spot]

ek. It reminds of out from the circle of twi.

[mstar1]

I wasted a huge span of my youth marking where every Also belonged in the sentence.

Is "also" a preposition?

I DONT FLIPPIN CARE!

What a huge waste of time TWI was

[Nato]

ek. It reminds of out from the circle of twi.

I think that's what this diagram was actually.

[DogLover]

DIA ... which means "by way of" with the meaning that that's the only way it could be done. Check it out .. it's cool ... and NOT something I learned in TWI.

[Belle]

All I remember is "But" and "when God sticks His 'but' in there, it's a big 'but'."

[JavaJane]

ek. It reminds of out from the circle of twi.

Darn it, Spot!! You stole my answer!!

[doojable]

"Get thee behind me, Satan!"

Sorry - just had to add that here

[Keith]

BUT -- Since I've left I've done a lot of work on the word "but". It's been fun.

"de" often translated and or but - indicates a contrast with what comes before, but does not negate it. It may just introuduce a new idea.

"alla" - almost always translated but - indicates a complete contrast and negation of what was stated before.

I got those definitions from Thayer's Greek dictionary if I remember right.. I like to work these. It is insteresting and not surprising that when you do a study, you often find yourself at odds with what we were taught in TWI.

When it comes to words like this though, I think of the book "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart D. Ehrman. It gives a very good idea of what scholars are really up against when working texts. The number of variations in manuscripts of the New Testament is actually larger than the number of words used in the New Testament. While most of them are differences that make no real difference in understanding. Some are real whoppers! If I were taching a class on studying the Bible, I would likely make this book part of the reading.

Edited June 6, 2007 by Keith

[Ham]

I thought Ek was the name of a monster on The Outer Limits..

Oh yeah.. here it is.

http://www.theouterlimits.com/episodes/season1960/6035.htm

Eck, Ek.. what's the difference..

[Ham]

Maybe Ek was the twi version. Needed to look through vic's glass eye to find his way back to the two dimensional world..

sorry, carry on..

:)

[Happyasaclam]

Then there is "throughly" ... or is it "thoroughly"? I know, that is not actually a preposition. I think they are both adverbs actually. But I can totally see God scratching his metaphorical head at TWI's issue with this one!

Clam

[dmiller]

Then there is "throughly" ... or is it "thoroughly"? I know, that is not actually a preposition. I think they are both adverbs actually. But I can totally see God scratching his metaphorical head at TWI's issue with this one!

Clam

*Throughly* is an archaic spelling of *Thoroughly* -- nothing more. :)

All modern dictionaries note "throughly" as an archaic form of "thoroughly." By definition, then, if the difference is one of form, it is not one of semantics. The distinctive meaning you infer from "throughly" is back-formed from our modern word "through." Though both "thoroughly" and "through" derive from the Old English "thurh," the two words had already diverged by Middle English into "thorow" and "through." Since Middle English gave way to Early Modern English by the end of the 15th century, the translators of the KJV in 1611 could not have been intending an adverbial form of "through." Rather, they used an earlier form (i.e., spelling) of the word we now spell "thoroughly."

Regardless of all that --I still like the music of George Thoroughlygood. :)

Or is that George Throughlygood??

Now I'm confused!

Edited June 7, 2007 by dmiller

[Nato]

*Throughly* is an archaic spelling of *Thoroughly* -- nothing more. :)

Regardless of all that --I still like the music of George Thoroughlygood. :)

Or is that George Throughlygood??

Now I'm confused!

My favorite philosopher is Henry David Thorough. Or Henry David Through.

[waysider]

Lambano, lamballo, laballo, ballo, ball, throw, throw it out.

Yeah! Yeah! That's the ticket! THROW IT OUT!

Sorry, that's not a preposition.

Preposition,pre-position, reposition, missionarry position, deposition----Now we're getin' somewhere.

That's Riiiiiiight!

[dmiller]

Lambano, lamballo, laballo, ballo, ball, throw, throw it out.

Yeah! Yeah! That's the ticket! THROW IT OUT!

That's Riiiiiiight!

Alas -- In my younger years, my right arm used to be a good throwing arm,

but these days -- I TROW NOT!

[frank123lol]

I am partial to apo.a drawing away or out of,Ya know the gathering together!!