In Gen. 13:15 AD OLAM is 'forever', namely, with no time limit set
––– with no statute of limitation. The fact that someone builds
a house, a shed, a driveway, a fence, or whatnot, on your land is
another issue; it happens everyday everywhere.
Read again Jeremiah chapter 32, and recall verse 15:
כי כה אמר יהוה צבאות אלהי ישראל עוד
יקנו בתים ושדות וכרמים בארץ הזאת
and tell me if he was right, or what.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Dec 12, 2010, at 1:03 PM, fred burlingame wrote:
Hello Isaac:
Thanks for your comments.
You could be right, since I am but the consumer 1,000 years
removed, rather than the creator, of the masoretic text.
But ... how do you read עד עולם in genesis 13:15; and in the
context of 2 chronicles 36:17? "forever?" "eternally?" And if so,
how do you define "forever" and "eternally" in terms of length of
time?
Or perhaps you understand עד עולם in this particular context,
in yet a third and different manner?
I look forward to hearing from you, on your precise meaning of this
phrase in this verse?
I note in closing that surely someone else's house stands on that
land today at this very moment.
regards,
fred burlingame
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote:
I am sorry to have to say this, but this talk of a "hidden" period
of time is in my opinion a symptom of a basic misunderstanding of
the workings and nature of the Hebrew language. The rest is theology.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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