[Ads-l] for the quote sleuths

[Dan Goncharoff]

Arnold

A couple of thoughts:

I have to bring up John Greenleaf Whittier's The Reformer:

O, backward-looking son of time !
The new is old, the old is new,
The cycle of a change sublime
Still sweeping through.

The poem was also turned into a hymn in the 19th century.

I also note that more modern translations of 2 Cor 5:17 are closer to the
phrase:

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/2%20Corinthians%205%3A17

DanG

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> "Everything Old is New Again" -- on my blog
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> https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/14/on-the-quote-watch/
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