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Originally Posted by testallthings
When the Lord was rebuking those leading cities, He answered and said, “I praise You, Father.” The word “answered” is very meaningful... (Life-Study of Matthew, Chapter 31, Section 5)
Idiomatic Phrases
1. "Answered and said" was used by Hebrew idiom of whatever kind of speech is in question. It should therefore not be rendered literally
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I remember having a Bible which used that phraseology, "answered and said", and used it frequently enough so that I instinctively understood it as not being literal. Funny that Lee never picked up on it. I wonder what translation he was running off of, there; Chinese or English. Certainly he wasn't familiar with Greek, or its idiomatic usage.
Also funny that anyone would let someone so unaware present them with a supposedly definitive presentation of scripture. Mea culpa.