Re: Pater Noster (purely linguistically)

"Ph. D." <phild@A...> wrote:

>I can understand the difficulty of explaining espousal customs or
>angels to a different culture, but what's so hard about explaining a
>manger?
I had in mind missionaries to a culture that had no domesticated
animals.  They might find it strange that a place had to be provided
to feed animals.

BTW (not to you, Ph.D.), neither the Matthean annunciation story
(1:24) nor the Lucan (1:35) mention The Holy Spirit/Ghost.  In those
verses the definite article is not used, so the translation would
be "a holy spirit."  To insert "the" is to paraphrase, to add a
theological nuance not found in the text.

Charlie

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