Much wisdom here

Written by thehouseofvines

Odes of Solomon 3:3
For I should not have known how to love the Lord, if he had not continuously loved me.

9 thoughts on “Much wisdom here”

      1. Ah. A fair ask. Yes. I used to. In my Christian days. Own something like 20 different translations. As a result I tended to bounce between them, a bad habit. They’ve been whittled down to;

        Jerome’s Sacra Biblia Vulgata, for composition.

        Douay-Rheims, for devotion.

        NRSV for retention. Which is what I’m currently reading.

        As my Greek powers improve I want to get the Septuagint and attendant Greek Scriptures, but for now I have a Greek New Testament my neighbour got off an Evangelical at the Greek Freedom March in Boston.

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        1. Impressive.
          One of my Top 10 favorite sites is http://www.biblegateway.com which has 150 translations in 50 languages and a bunch of supplementary research materials and tools. Obviously nothing replaces physically engaging with the text, which I believe contains holy power, but it makes comparative study so much easier.

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          1. Thanks. Although the real reason to learn Greek and Latin is Ovid and Hesiod, Bibling is fun too. (For me.)

            I have used Bible Gateway. I forgot to mention. The Geneva Bible occupies a strong spot on my shelf, as it is the translation most likely used by my early pre-Episcopalian ancestors. Although, despite our being here since the 1620s I’m uncertain how “Puritanical” the Morses were, given our lot in the Episcopal registries. I might add, these were pre-Marxist Episcopalians. My grandfather was the last of them, having given his children to the Catholics for Baptism.

            But that’s enough family history I guess.

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                1. Oh, me either. I know a decent amount of Greek and Latin (mostly having to do with religion and philosophy.) A smattering of German, French and Italian. And I can pick out a couple words in several other languages. But my pronunciation is utterly barbaric and I couldn’t string together a sentence in any of them for the life of me. The danger of being a self-taught high school drop-out is that I only bothered to study the things that interest me.

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                  1. Yes. I can sympathise. I can grug in German, and do basic prayer and ritual in Greek and Latin. Please it ever, I’m sure, Adephagia, Hedone, Kirki, Hermes, George and Dionysus.

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