God's Property

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• weegee90@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ALL THESE FLORA ARE YOURS – EXCEPT FERNS. ATTEMPT NO CULTIVATING THEM.

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• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s with the weird italics? I’m not well versed on that sort of thing, but linguistically it makes no sense that I can see…?

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  • vonbaronhans@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The superscripts are almost certainly references to translators’ footnotes.

    The random italicization I’m less sure about, but it seems to primarily be on words that may not have a direct Hebrew counterpart?

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      More literal translations of bibles are often like you’re referencing and are really interesting to read when you approach from a scholarly direction.

      Take them with a grain of salt and the historian/translators footnotes and see what you take from it. Lots of good thoughts and prayers and wildly different than what the Christian right has championed lately.

      Still a fantasy novel though

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  • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The numbers are verse numbers, used for citing specific passages, e.g. “Ezekiel 23:20”.

    I would assume that the letters are annotations, and that this is likely an academic Bible.

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    • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Does that include the 8 up by “moves” in the preceding paragraph?

      I assume the gilded superscript numbers are verse numbers, I know at least that much of biblical format, but then there’s that 8.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    translation notes I’m guessing

    “that yields seeds” could be “which yields seeds” or “doth yield seeds” or “yielding seeds” or “seed yielding” etc

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• s@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So technically who is to blame for the fig tree that bore no fruit as mentioned in Mark 11:12–25 and Matthew 21:18–22?

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  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In the Apocrypha, childhood Jesus got mad at another kid and turned him into a tree.
    Now, I’m not saying they’re the same tree. But I am saying I can do whatever I want in my own headcanon.

    2 And when Jesus saw what was done, he was wroth and said unto him: O evil, ungodly, and foolish one, what hurt did the pools and the waters do thee? behold, now also thou shalt be withered like a tree, and shalt not bear leaves, neither root, nor fruit.

    http://www.gnosis.org/library/inftoma.htm

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    • s@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Jesus really said fuck you to that one kid in particular

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• 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Eat weed, tis holy and god-ordained

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• RedFrank24@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Would this not also apply to mushrooms?

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  • Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not a plant, and the penis-looking part above ground is called a fruiting body so therefore it does bear fruit

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    • vardogor@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      not exactly, we say fruiting bodies to be easier to describe, but you can’t botanically be a fruit without being a plant. plus spores aren’t seeds. fungi are more closely related to us than fruit!

      i wonder if any distinction was made that long ago too though, or if mushrooms would’ve been included in the original context 🤔

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    • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Who called it that?

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