Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
may not one, then, exclaim...
English answer:
Let us... Isn't it possible...
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Ana Juliá
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English term
may not one, then, exclaim with the royal philosopher
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Proverbs 3:25-26. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Sudden fears are attended with a stupefying influence upon those who lack faith, but far different is the fact with regard to the righteous. The righteous man is bold as a lion, for he knows, like the three children in Babylon, that the God whom he serves is able to deliver him, ot to render him happy, though the desolation of others should involve the destruction, not only of all his outward comforts, but of his mortal life.
MAY NOT ONE, THEN, EXCLAIM WITH THE ROYAL PHILOSOPHER: "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding!" (Proverbs 3:13). The way in which wisdom leads us is attended with every blessing, and free from every evil; or if there be any evil in it, so wonderful is the providence of God that it is turned into good.
Why? What sense has this sentence here? Why shouldn't one exclaim that?
Sudden fears are attended with a stupefying influence upon those who lack faith, but far different is the fact with regard to the righteous. The righteous man is bold as a lion, for he knows, like the three children in Babylon, that the God whom he serves is able to deliver him, ot to render him happy, though the desolation of others should involve the destruction, not only of all his outward comforts, but of his mortal life.
MAY NOT ONE, THEN, EXCLAIM WITH THE ROYAL PHILOSOPHER: "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding!" (Proverbs 3:13). The way in which wisdom leads us is attended with every blessing, and free from every evil; or if there be any evil in it, so wonderful is the providence of God that it is turned into good.
Why? What sense has this sentence here? Why shouldn't one exclaim that?
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"Let us..."
This does not mean "one may not..." but more "Isn't it possible..." or "Let us exclaim..." or "The words of the royal philosopher are appropriate here". Something like that. What does the Spanish Bible say?
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Lars Helbig
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couldn't a person at this point say with the words of the royal philosopher
Isn't this a point where somebody might say the same thing as the royal philosopher? Isn't this an occasion to quote the royal philosopher?
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