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A playful Toss up between Christian and Secular thoughts
After a short hiatus, I decided that is was time to come back to this project and continue my creative writing experiment on a rainy , damp day. This time, my writing alcove is situated in a reserved corner of my public library, a semi-private area where I to my left, I see a small garden , filled with small trees, perennial grasses and, my favorite , large ferns. It’s a peaceful corner, very little distraction well lighted, a perfect little place to escape for a few hours.
Let’s continue our journey through Professor Stone’s book “Latin for the Illiterati” [1] and pick a few new expressions to explore. Today this will bounce around between the religious and secular spaces.
word 6, page 8
“ad verbum”
This is one of those expressions that we can count on when we want to sound erudite in our writing and speech. It can be translated as “word for word”. I suspect that the expression is used less commonly than its cousin “verbatim”.
But this was not why this set of words jumped out at me. A theological association instead prompted my interest and curiosity. In the Latin vulgate bible, we find in the gospel of John at 1:14 we…
