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Chapter 12: "The lord of that custodian" - seems awkward and archaic. Any thoughts?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 12:42, 30 January 2010 (EST)
Chapter 12: "The lord of that custodian" - seems awkward and archaic. Any thoughts?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 12:42, 30 January 2010 (EST)
:Perhaps change custodian to "supervisor", (seems to get across that he's in charge of the work, but not the owner) and lord to "employer" or "businessman" or "owner" as each context requires, since lord used to refer to simply any landowner hiring people. [[User:DouglasA|DouglasA]] 13:30, 30 January 2010 (EST)
:Perhaps change custodian to "supervisor", (seems to get across that he's in charge of the work, but not the owner) and lord to "employer" or "businessman" or "owner" as each context requires, since lord used to refer to simply any landowner hiring people. [[User:DouglasA|DouglasA]] 13:30, 30 January 2010 (EST)
::This is a tricky passage, and finding the right words is not as easy as I would hope. The key thread seems to be that there's a servant appointed by a lord/master to oversee his household, which seems to be better replaced by "affairs" than "business", although the latter works as well. This servant is the supervisor of all the lord's affairs in his absence, which is why all the other servants and maidens report to him, and why it is his role to hand out wages to them. The cautionary tale is that when this overseer doesn't think the master is watching (coming back late) he gets lazy, abusive, and arrogant, and then faces his day of reckoning hen the master catches him by surprise.<br/>
::In strict business terms, the lord would be an executive or owner, the custodian would be a manager, and the others the staff. I was undecided about whether to replace "lord" so folks don't confuse this with God despite the metaphor. Jesus is telling this as a parable so He is not directly referring to God in this case. How about these options, then:
:::*"Lord" becomes "estate owner".
:::*"The main servant becomes the "estate manager", or simply "the manager". I like Douglas' suggestion of "supervisor", too.
:::*The others become the "estate staff" or "estate workers"
:That would work better than "custodian", which I agree is awkward. --[[User:ChrisY|ChrisY]] 13:32, 30 January 2010 (EST)