To: annalex; presently no screen name; bkaycee
She very well KNEW how children are made!! I KNOW NOT MAN!!
Yes, indeed. So you understand now that this manner of speech points to her not intending to have carnal relations with Joseph? And certainly your understand if she had said "I will not know man."
One is present tense. One is future tense.
5,122 posted on
12/10/2010 2:07:10 PM PST by
OLD REGGIE
(I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: OLD REGGIE; presently no screen name; bkaycee
One is present tense. One is future tense. The prediction of the angel was regarding the future. Yet she wandered how it will be possible. She, too, was referring to a future impossibility. If she was referring to the present state without implying the future, there would be no question.
I know not men. I smoke not. I eat not pork. All these statements refer to a chosen way of life which is not about to change.
5,437 posted on
12/15/2010 6:16:26 PM PST by
annalex
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