Sentences with phrase «circumlocution for»

Another complication is the possibility that Son of man could be used as a circumlocution for «I» in Aramaic, which could mean that the two forms in Greek are possibly simply translation variants of this Aramaic idiom.

It is not possible to prove that such a saying does go back to Jesus, although the arguments for it are fairly strong: the non-ecclesiastical use of homologein en, the quite characteristic passive as a circumlocution for the divine activity, and the absence of any specifically «Christian» expectation.

This is suggested by the passive now found in Luke 12.9; it would also be an Aramaism (the passive voice as a circumlocution for the divine activity), and it would provide a basis from which the «I» and «Son of man» forms could have developed in the tradition, as variant ways of giving Jesus a role in the judgement.

This passive was a circumlocution for the activity of God, as is regularly the case in Aramaic.

That Luke is dependent upon Mark, or the tradition which Mark is using, in Luke 22.69 is, we believe, to be argued from the way in which he maintains the Semitic circumlocution for God, «Power», while adding «of God» for the sake of his Gentile readers who may not understand the construction.

3:5, 7, 9) and as a circumlocution for «I», the evangelist, but the most natural interpretation is to take it as referring to the same person who has seen.

It would perhaps be going too far to describe «son of man» here as a circumlocution for the first personal pronoun.

Miller says, «The coming years will not be lacking in interest in this regard — which is a Vatican circumlocution for saying they will be exciting.»

Not exact matches

Even so, «their unity of subjective aim» would be an odd circumlocution, for how are the many feelings united by one conceptual feeling?

For still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowshFor still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowshfor human fellowship.

It's hilarious, and Smith's crass verbosity still works for me even though I'm sick of Tarantino's circumlocution.

Contains a follow up circumlocution worksheet with the extension verbs for writing and speaking to practice (a version with English instructions and a version with Spanish instructions included).

Lang seems to pick on those too polite to accuse him directly of being a liar, but one can readily find circumlocutions such as CBDunkerson «s «The continuing fictional works of Peter Lang» that amount to the same thing, which I didn't have to search far for: it's in the same thread containing Ronald Brak's comment above.