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To: Rachumlakenschlaff
Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless!

This is off the point, but your tagline is actually a better translation of the Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes 1:1 than the usual "vanity."

1,460 posted on 03/07/2003 11:41:24 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless! This is off the point, but your tagline is actually a better translation of the Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes 1:1 than the usual "vanity."

"Vanity" was used in the King James Version. "Meaningless" is used in the New International Version. I suspect that vanity was probably very accurate for the time, but it's usage has changed. Then again, I'm not a scholar of King James English.
1,466 posted on 03/07/2003 2:16:05 PM PST by Rachumlakenschlaff
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