Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:51:56 -0700, Bob Dohse wrote: . . . > Hi gang, > Yes ... Peter's letter was written in Greek. That was the "trade > language" used throughout the Roman Empire, especially in the eastern > Mediterranean area. For any writings from that time period, Greek would > be used unless the potential audience was exclusively a small group using > a different language and the message wasn't intended to be shared outside > the homogenous group. > The Greek word translated as "ass" in some older English versions of the > bible is (in English letters, I don't have a Greek script available) > pronounced "hoop-od-zoog'-ee-on", which means "an animal under the yoke". > Common usage of the word in Palestine in the first century referred to a > donkey. Since it was referring back to the Old Testament, we should probably look at whichever (Hebrew, presumably) word was used there. PML. GST+NPT=JOBS I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme t. See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other items on that page for some reasons why. -- Arachne V1.77+/B~5 Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --