The transition from one sentence
to the next must be made logically
clear, even at the cost of introducing
words which are not there, but are
implicit in the context. Your vocabulary
must be chosen, not so much by reference
to the use of this or that word elsewhere
in the Old Testament [TANAK] as by
reference to the needs of this particular
passage -- token-words will not do. You
must cast your sentences into a form which
will preserve not only the meaning but the
rhetoric of the original, or the flying
wrack of imagery will pass you by --
pages 33 - 34
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