Re: Fiat Lux

Steg Belsky wrote:

> The Hebrew original has _yehi or_.  _or_ is "light", and _yehi_ is a
> short form of _yihyeh_, meaning "he will be" (_or_ is a masculine noun).
> Future verbs in Hebrew (especially the short forms of "to be") are used
> as jussives, if i remember the term correctly.  So it actually does mean
> "let there be light" or "let light be".
IIRC we had a translation found of "fiat lux" about a year ago. <checks>
Yes, we did, it was me who started it, actually...

Dan

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La plus belle fois qu'on m'a dit
          "je t'aime"
                   c'était un mec
                             qui me l'a dit...
Francis Lalane
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