posted by [identity profile] halibut.livejournal.com at 04:36am on 08/01/2003
Hrm, I don't think "lovingkindness" is the same as "loving kindness" - I think I've seen the one-word version in the KJV as quoted in the BCP. It might be worth looking to see how the RSV does it though.

I wouldn't really know though - we High types don't usually read it that much :-P

Incidentally, I heard in a sermon the other day that the NT's "grace" is derived in part from the same word as "lovingkindness" in OT. Do you know anything about that?

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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 05:06am on 08/01/2003
I wouldn't really know though - we High types don't usually read it that much :-P

I was expecting you to tell me that the BCP has "loving-kindness", since you probably read that more often than the Bible :-p

Incidentally, I heard in a sermon the other day that the NT's "grace" is derived in part from the same word as "lovingkindness" in OT. Do you know anything about that?

Oh, uh. Dunno. Ask [livejournal.com profile] taimatsu :)
 
posted by [identity profile] halibut.livejournal.com at 05:31am on 08/01/2003
I was expecting you to tell me that the BCP has "loving-kindness", since you probably read that more often than the Bible :-p

I'll have you know I had to read an awfully difficult bit of Ephesians in public on Monday :-P (which included the very odd word "you-ward")

I am crawling through the lectionary though, don't worry. *grin*

Seriously - the "grace" connection is why I'd opt for "lovingkindness" or, at a push, the hyphenated version. I mean, people can and should treat one another with loving kindness, but I suspect that the psalmist meant something a little more profound / sublime than that.

Mind you the Psalms can be odd. Particularly the bits about braining people against rocks.

Have a good day *g*
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 06:22am on 08/01/2003
Seriously - the "grace" connection is why I'd opt for "lovingkindness" or, at a push, the hyphenated version. I mean, people can and should treat one another with loving kindness, but I suspect that the psalmist meant something a little more profound / sublime than that.

*nod* I think that loving-kindness is probably the right answer. The OED in fact cites a translation of the Psalms as the origin of it, and the definition seems not too bad:

Affectionate tenderness and consideration; kindness arising from a deep personal love, as the active love of God for his creatures.

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