'Translation from one language into another is in one sense impossible. It
is always possible to translate words with accuracy when they refer to things. A chair is a chair
in any language. But it is a different matter when it is a question of ideas. In that case some
words need, not another to translate them, but a phrase, or a sentence, or even a paragraph.
Further, words have associations...with history, with ideas, with other words, and these
associations give words a certain flavour which cannot be rendered in translation..." --A New
Testament Wordbook.
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