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14:59 Feb 7, 2013 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Art/Literary - Philosophy | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Yvonne Gallagher Ireland Local time: 10:32 | ||||||
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4 +1 | the people who are not pious |
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3 | who is the personification |
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who is the personification Explanation: In other words impiety is personified by what is said, the example that is given. |
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the people who are not pious Explanation: imo -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2013-02-07 16:30:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I believe "impious" here= the non-pious people so, "in whose person" refers to these people Hereby is banished the error of the impious in whose person it is said:... The error of impious people is hereby banished since it is said that they... You really need to give the full context and at least a full sentence to get a full explanation -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2013-02-07 16:31:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- it might also be said that these people personify impiety -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2013-02-07 18:46:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- so, I just found the rest of the context since you asked the question in another forum already http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postsm374790_in-whose-per... and I agree with Thar since it is very similar to what i said already "Hereby is banished the error of the impious [person]; it is said that in the impious person:......." so, yes, these are the impious people -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2013-02-07 18:50:24 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- in whose person=is embodied or these people embody the essence of these people is and the context: Hereby is banished the error of the impious in whose person it is said: We were born out of nothingness, and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been (Wisd. ii, 2); in whose person again Solomon says: One is the perishing of man and beast, and even is the lot of both: as man dies, so do beasts die: all breathe alike, and man hath no advantage over beasts (Eccles iii, 19): that he does not say this in his own person, but in the person of the ungodly, is clear from what he says at the end, as it were drawing a conclusion: Till the dust return to the earth, from whence it came; and the spirit go back to the God who gave it (Eccles xii, 7). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 days4 hrs (2013-02-10 19:20:56 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- glad to have helped |
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