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To: Hieronymus

David didn’t have sex with his wife AFTER she died. That would be necrophilia.

Joseph had sex with his wife after she delivered. Mary survived childbirth.

The time limit referent preposition “until” covers both. It limits the period. And that is all it does.

Language is centered in human experience. I hate it when people carve out special meanings for foreign languages and thereby twist the meaning.


63 posted on 02/03/2017 5:07:56 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting

To be complete: It’s not just UNTIL as preposition, but all its forms including adverb and subordinating conjunction.


66 posted on 02/03/2017 5:27:13 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting

If the Bible were written in English, you would have a very good case. It wasn’t, you don’t.

I hate it when people assume foreign words are merely English words with funny letters. Prepositions are notoriously difficult to translate.

By carving out a special meaning for English, you are doing precisely what you claim you hate.

BTW—I teach both Biblical Greek and Biblical Hebrew.


68 posted on 02/03/2017 6:34:45 AM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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