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   Jack Campin - bogus address (bogus@purr.demon.co.uk) wrote:   
      
   >>          Source: Pagels 1981:70.   
   >>     "The gnostic teacher Justinus describes the Lord's shock,   
   >>   terror and anxiety 'when he discovered that he was not the God   
   >>   of the universe'. Gradually his shock gave way to wonder, and   
   >>   finally he came to welcome what Wisdom had taught him. The   
   >>   teacher concludes: 'This is the meaning of the saying, "The   
   >>   fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom."'"   
   >   
   > Interesting.  That pun would not work in Turkish, where you would   
   > use different syntax to express a human's fear of the Lord and the   
   > Lord's fear of something else (the object of the verb "to fear"   
   > takes the ablative in Turkish).  Presumably it does work in Greek   
   > as it does in English.  How about Hebrew?   
   >   
      
   Yes, the pun works perfectly well in Greek. I'm pretty sure it works   
   equally well in Hebrew. But with Greek, I can recall the name of the   
   rule involved ("subjective" vs. "objective" genitive).   
      
   --   
   Bill Baldwin   
   http://bettercovenant.wordpress.com/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)