Re: Recovery, just not the normal sort

"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In <45ec7a4f.1225171@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 03/05/2007
at 09:07 PM, raltbos@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Bos) said:

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. IMO the most important
verse in the New Testament. Which, unless I'm very much mistaken, was
also a more-or-less direct quotation of an Old Testament verse,

Well, I probably wouldn't have translated rei'a as neighbot, but yes.

For the proper translation of "neighbour" from the original Hebrew,
through Aramaic, Koine Greek, and Latin, into English, see the parable
of the Good Samaritan, which he told precisely to clear up that point.
(It doesn't mean "the guy who happens to live next door".)

Richard
.

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