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→‎Trimming {{fact}} tags: Strong's was a brilliant work in the 1800s. "Slanderer" today does not connote the same thing that it connoted in the 1800s, and Strong's (like many Bible experts) sometimes overlooks or downplays physics-type meanings of ter
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::There is a short story of Peter Bichsel "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" ("a table is a table"), which can be found in many German textbooks for high-school pupils: Bichsel describes a man who one day decides to call his ''table'' henceforth a ''carpet'', his ''bed'' a ''picture'', his ''chair'' a ''clock'' and so on. This amuses him for a while, but he get lost in his own language and cannot communicate with others any more.
 
::There is a short story of Peter Bichsel "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" ("a table is a table"), which can be found in many German textbooks for high-school pupils: Bichsel describes a man who one day decides to call his ''table'' henceforth a ''carpet'', his ''bed'' a ''picture'', his ''chair'' a ''clock'' and so on. This amuses him for a while, but he get lost in his own language and cannot communicate with others any more.
 
::That's the problem here: Andy got an insight into the ''real'' meaning of διαβάλλω - and he is oblivious to the fact that no one else has ever understood the word in his way. Unfortunately, whenever Andy gets an insight, he tends to ignore things like a lexicon or a few hundred years of etymological science ... --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 16:13, 26 April 2018 (EDT)
 
::That's the problem here: Andy got an insight into the ''real'' meaning of διαβάλλω - and he is oblivious to the fact that no one else has ever understood the word in his way. Unfortunately, whenever Andy gets an insight, he tends to ignore things like a lexicon or a few hundred years of etymological science ... --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 16:13, 26 April 2018 (EDT)
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:::Still thinking about this with an open mind, without being overly literal.  Strong's was a brilliant work in the 1800s.  "Slanderer" today does not connote the same thing that it connoted in the 1800s, and Strong's (like many Bible experts) sometimes overlooks or downplays physics-type meanings of terms.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 21:41, 26 April 2018 (EDT)
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