The text, of a very composite nature; sometimes inclining to the shortness and simplicity of the Vatican manuscript, but more commonly presenting the sameparaphrastic character of text as the Codex Bezae.
Perhaps these paraphrastic renderings are what Dr.
The extract illustrates the paraphrastic nature of parts of the translation.
Grundtvig’s translation[4] had been so paraphrastic as often to obscure the sense, and always the spirit, of the original.
But there is another danger in this paraphrastic method.
The, in any case, paraphrastic quotation or quotations which find a parallel in Matt.
We will give an example of this, and at the same time of his paraphrastic method of quotation:-- Barnabas c.
Among the numerous paraphrastic quotations, there are some that have specially the appearance of having been made from memory, such as Acts vii.
The natural inference from the exactness of this coincidence with the language of Matthew as compared with Luke, is not neutralised by the paraphrasticaddition from Matt.
How, too, did he come to have the paraphrastic reading of Matt.
To this opinion we shall the rather incline, if we attend to another paraphrastic interpretation.
It is accomplished by a persevering exercise of the principle which has been illustrated above, and which is exemplified in the paraphrastic exercise.
This mental capacity is most likely to be acquired by the regular and persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise.
A similar collateral advantage, which will arise from the persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise, deserves a separate consideration.
The word Peshito signifies simple, indicating that it gives the simple meaning of the original, without paraphrastic and allegorical additions.
In the historical books, this Targum is in the main literal; but in the prophets (in the stricter sense of the term) paraphrastic and allegorical.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paraphrastic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
