In a message dated 1/19/01 2:32:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


...WOMBAT being of divine origin...


Are they (Flinstone-users) still pushing that crap?  The Tanakh (Old
Testament) uses ancient Hebrew weights and measures, such as the *shekel*,
*ephah*, and *cubit*; the Christian New Testament uses ancient Greek units,
such as the *stadium* (plural = *stadia*). The New English Bible does
translate these into WOMBAT, as I'm sure do some other versions, but that's
hardly a divine endorsement, is it? What would these master intellects in the
F2M and BWMA say to turning back the clock a little further, and speaking
divinely-inspired Aramaic, Greek or Latin, instead of our sinful English?


Randi Radcliff
Philadelphia Metro Area

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