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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Ha! My column last week was on guilt - I'm for it! As I look around the world today, it seems to me that there are plenty of people for whom the concept of guilt is entirely foreign. I'll spare y'all the whole column - but I think guilt can be a very good thing.
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It can be, or it can be debilitating, depending on how it is "used." Guilt as a self-awareness -- good. Guilt as a cudgel -- not so good. And being the Protestant that I am, guilt that's not coupled with grace --
so not good.
Meanwhile, as a Presbyterian, I have to note one place where the translators clearly didn't worry about a closer translation from the Latin: The Our Father. They kept the traditional (and archaic) form of the English, including "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. The Latin is:
et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimėttimus debitōribus nostris. Clearly, the closer translation is "forgive us our
debts, as we forgive our
debtors."
