A Russian Proverb

Fri Sep 2 19:30:14 UTC 2005

Isn't that the point?  It's a proverb, not a simple declarative sentence.  There may be irony: "As long as God lives" (and we all know he lives forever), "so lives my soul" (which also must live forever, if it depends on the eternal existence of God). Besides, grammatically speaking, a short-form adjective implies  that the state of the subject which it describes is temporary.

sd

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From: pjs <pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU>
Date: Friday, September 2, 2005 12:36 pm
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] A Russian Proverb

> > 
> > As long as God lives, so lives my soul.
> 
> The problem with this is that it implies that both God's existence 
> and, by 
> the extension, the existence of one's mortal soul could be finite.
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