Ooh - religion! (was tragedy or triumph?)

davewitley dfrankiswork at netscape.net
Tue Jul 27 17:52:19 UTC 2004


Hans theorised:

> Just a small note about the words, "Eli, Eli, la'ma sabach-
tha'ni?" to which
> Geoff and Phil were referring. My theory is that this is a 
mistake. In my
> opinion the original words were, "Eloi, Eloi, lamah azabvtha-ni", 
which
> means, "Elohim, Elohim, you have poured your radiance over me." The
> crucifixion is symbolical. There was no pain. There was no 
separation from
> God.

By 'original', do you mean 'original words spoken by Jesus' 
or 'original text from which he was quoting' (Psalm 22)?

David





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