Paine & 3 Bibles, the synagogue

1–2 minutes

Interpretation to Modern English © Teresa Pelka, M.A.

Invoked in Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason, Conway vol. 4, page 39.
They make mention of him at the age of twelve years, sitting, they say, among the Jewish doctors, asking and answering them questions.

Both early and later versions of Wycliffe refer the word kingdom to the word realm. Wycliffe reportedly translated from Greek, where the ■Codex Sinaiticus is dated at some 300-350 of this era. It has the political idea of ■βασιλιάς, without much of the potentially physical ■ὤρεξα or ■ὀρέγω, or the Greek figure for deity, ■ἄναξ.

We may take Einstein’s mc2 for our example. If we said c2 is the rule, our Latin verb could be regere exactly. The Latin regnum would be where c2 applies. The Latin regum would be where c2 belongs. In present-day English we could say that c2 is a regularity or norm, making no reference to politics.

If we combine word sense and shapes as the Greek ■χώρα and the Latin ■hora or ■surrexit (from the same ■regere), we may read the passages like semantics turned into syntagma.

It may remain a speculation if ■Copernicus would have taken his Revolutionibus inspiration here, the ancient teaching to have been in Copernau.

Gutenberg without ligatures or variants

All the Paine

Age of Reason Bible quotes by Thomas Paine compared with Wycliffe, page for page.

Cały ten Paine

Gutenberg i Wujek, cytaty Paine’a strona za stroną, po łacinie i polsku.


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