A Russian Proverb

[Jack Kollmann]

Another proverb, somewhat similar in terms of God's "finiteness," and in 
this case pointing to the popular significance of St. Nicholas in Russian 
culture:  "Don't worry, if God dies, we still have St. Nicholas."
Jack Kollmann

At 12:30 PM 9/2/2005, you wrote:
>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
>
>----- Original Message -----
>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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