"Lenin lives" (was Mr. Mayakovsky too died in the gulag)

[Helen Halva]

I don't know Hebrew, but I've been told that ancient (biblical) Hebrew 
lacks tenses as written; hence the name of God (YHWH) can be interpreted 
"I was what I was" or "I am what I am" or "I will be what I will be" --- 
or, more significantly, all three at once.  If this is the case, it 
could provide a clue to this past-present-future formula.
HH



William Ryan wrote:
> This is certainly the closest fit so far - but which of Lenin's Jewish 
> soratniki would have been so blasphemous? These triple formulas to 
> express eternity seem to be a topos in Judeo-Christian scripture. One 
> might add from the Doxology in many Christian liturgies, '... as it 
> was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be'. The tricolon more 
> generally as a rhetorical device is also common (e.g. Christus vincit, 
> Christus regnat, Christus imperat). The reinforcing power of triple 
> statements is very common in folklore and magic - and even football 
> chants (my favorite: 'he shoots, he scores, he eats labradors' - of a 
> certain Korean footballer).
>
> Will Ryan
>
> Robert A. Rothstein wrote:
>> Charles Mills wrote:
>>> I can tell we've got some people who need to get out to church more 
>>> often!
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, 
>>> which
>>> is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."  
>>> --Revelation 1:8
>>> KJV
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> Or to the synagogue (as Jules Levin implied):
>>
>>    V'hu hoyo v'hu hove   And He was, and He is,
>>    V'hu yiye b'siforo.      And He will be in glory.
>>       ("Adon olam")
>>
>> Bob Rothstein
>>
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