Through a glass darkly

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  1. Mac1 1
    28 April 2011 at 11:01 pm

    It is anticipated by the British Beer and Pub Association that 100 million extra pints of ale will be drunk in British pubs over the wedding bank holiday weekend. Cheers!

  2. Blighty 2
    28 April 2011 at 11:49 pm

    I’m not the religious type, but I the line ‘through a glass, darkly’ is one of my favourite from the bible. It makes no sense in modern English.’Translated’ it would read something like: ‘as if reflected in a mirror, vaguely/murkily’ as in that’s how limited our understanding is of what God is like.

    but well punned on, Mike, who I’m sure could discuss the theology behind that line in great depth.

    • Draco T Bastard 2.1
      29 April 2011 at 1:40 am

      Sounds like Plato’s cave.

    • Bored 2.2
      29 April 2011 at 10:45 am

      Hi Blighty, I think “through a glass darkly” may have been coined by Tyndale (drawing on Luthers German translation)when translating the Bible from Greek, to substitute for words he could not translate directly. Other little gems Tyndale coined include:
      twinkling of an eye
      the powers that be
      the salt of the earth
      a law unto themselves
      filthy lucre
      gave up the ghost
      the signs of the times

  3. Arctor 3
    30 April 2011 at 1:23 pm

    I was curious about the title as well. One of my favourite books is A Scanner Darkly which is Philip K Dick’s paraphrase of that line.

    It has always struck me as a neat line

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