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Lord of the Sabbath

07 Nov

Mark 2:28 in the Latin Vulgate:

itaque dominus est Filius hominis etiam sabbati

Literal English:

And therefore, Lord is Son of Man, even of the Sabbath!

We might be better off to rearrange the nominitives:

And thus, the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath!

Because I am a bit bored, lets compare this with the Greek:

ὥστε κύριός ἐστιν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ τοῦ σαββάτου.

Literally, we get:

So, Lord is the Son of the Humanity/the man and/even of the Sabbath!

Put that into human-style english using concepts that Western Christian are used to and we get:

So, The Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath!

Now in German:

Also ist der Sohn des Menschen Herr auch über den Sabbat. (SCL)

Literally, we get:

Also is the Son of Man Lord, also over the Sabbath.

In regular English we get:

ok, I am going to play a video game.

 

Lord of the Sabbath

07 Nov

Mark 2:28 in the Latin Vulgate:

itaque dominus est Filius hominis etiam sabbati

Literal English:

And therefore, Lord is [the] Son of Man, even of the Sabbath!

We might be better off to rearrange the nominitives:

And thus, the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath!

 

An unexpected Invitation

03 Nov

I am back to translating Latin to keep it fresh [and it is about as rotten as can be right now].  Today I pick up the adventures of Petronius in The Millionaires’ Dinner Party.  Did the first four lines and memorized the vocab therein today.

1 Itaque maesti deliberabamus de malis quae nobis imminebant cum

2 servus Agamemnon intravit et “quid?” inquit “nonne scitis? hodie

3 ad cenam invitati estis a Trimalchione, lautissimo homine. venite

4 igitur; nolite morari?”

And therefore, we were sternly considering the troubles which were threatening us when the slave of Agamemnon entered and said “What, Do you now know?  Today you all have been invited to dinner by Trimalchio, the finest man."  Therefore, come; Do you wish to be late? [of course not]”

By the way, as I translate this, think of Trimalchio as Tracy Jordan from 30 Rock.  The man is rich and absolutely nuts.

Vocab:

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