A Criticism | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1858

A Criticism.

A WRITER who has been discussing the “ life and death” question through the columns of the Sabbath Recorder, gives the following stricture on Luke xxiii, 42:—

“‘Greek scholars’ tell us that the word “Semeron,” which is rendered, “To-day,” in our version, is not a noun, in the original, but an adverb, that it is used to give strength to the indicative form, and qualifies the verb say, instead of the verb shall be, and that the ‘little dot with a quirl to it,’ called a comma, (no part of inspiration,) should be placed after the word to-day, instead of before, in which case, the mighty argument in favor of a conscious existence after death, vanishes in a moment.”