a rare moment

before the pictures begin...  reading troy manning's blog and he included an insight into translation work that i thought was great because it shows how important the care and time put into Bible translation is and how those doing it need prayer for the result to be true and perfect.  talk about pressure... making sure you don't mess up God's HOLY WORD. yikes:

"I just checked Proverbs 1:7 where the Haitian Creole says, “Knowledge begins with the fear of the Lord.” The English translations have something like, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” So is the Haitian Creole equivalent? It may seem to be so if you just look at the English. But the Hebrew word for “beginning” could mean “starting point” or “chief portion” (i.e., controlling principle). Which is it? Well, actually, both are true, so the translation should allow for both. The Haitian Creole doesn’t seem to allow for both, but maybe I’m not fully understanding the translation, or maybe there are constraints in Creole that keep such an ambiguous translation from being possible. We’ll see at the workshop!"

a rare moment was caught on film... voluntary sitting together.

usually it's all silliness