Re: HumpBack

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From: Dave Platt
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1988 17:53

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In article <659@nvuxr.UUCP> ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (22221-christopher wood) writes:
> Isn't the line more like "It is easier to put a camel through the
> eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven" ?

Something like that, at least in the modern translations.  I've heard
(can't cite a source, unfortunately) that this is actually a serious
mistranslation that confuses the sense of the original analogy... the
word used in the original (Aramaic?) wasn't "camel", but was instead a
compound word derived from the phrase "camel-hair" and meant "rope".
Makes more sense, no?

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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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Subject: Re: HumpBack
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Date: 27 Jun 88 17:53:26 GMT
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