Re: Sophocles Antigone - Question re English/German translations

Steven Schuster  wrote:

> Very much a side track, but wouldn=E2=80=99t the word =E2=80=9Cawful=E2=
=80=9D have presented
> translation issues at some periods of its apparent transition of meaning?
>

The hymn which (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) I used to sing as a
choirboy --

Before Jehovah's awful throne
Ye nations bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and he destroy

-- has now become 'Before Jehovah's awesome throne ..' which sounds to me
as if the throne were covered in Swarovski crystals.

RH