Comments on: An Aussie Bible Reading

By: Simon Holloway

Simon Holloway — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:53:17 +0000

O bawdy Lordy! What are you implying?

By: John Hobbins

John Hobbins — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:03:09 +0000

“You will be done on earth” could easily have a sexual reference in Midwestern US English. How about down under?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:32:31 +0000

I’ve always considered your sense of smell to be particularly acute.

By: Simon Holloway

Simon Holloway — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:06:57 +0000

Not really ambiguous in the manner in which it seems to have confused him, of course. He was reading “thy” as though it meant “you”, and thus taking “will” as an auxiliary verb rather than a noun (“you will be done on earth”, etc).

God doesn’t want his will to be done? I smell a contradiction here.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:30:42 +0000

It’s actually a good point – without punctuation, the sentence is a bit ambiguous. Perhaps we should add it: “Thy kingdom; come! Thy will; be done!” The second one seems a bit forceful, though – I mean, what if the big G.D. doesn’t want his will to be done? But that opens up a- whole -nother can o’ worms.

And how much art could there be in heaven, anyway?

By: Joel Nothman

Joel Nothman — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:51:58 +0000

Are you implying that he was stressing “thy” as a subject and thus “will” a modal? Hmmmm….