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Mon Sep 19 14:00:59 UTC 2016

The proverbial "straight and narrow path" collapses--and reanalyzes--the biblical (King James Version) "strait gate" and "narrow path."


--Charlie

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> On Sep 18, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Laurence Horn =
<laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Cf. "straight is the gate"
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> Do I have to? =F0=9F=98=96
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Sorry, Wilson.  I knew what that one must do to you.  Talk about SOTAs.  =
You'll be glad to know that "strait" is holding its own, though, at =
least in cites of Matthew 7:14 (not to mention renderings of Gide's "La =
porte =C3=A9troite")

LH

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