Re: Sophocles Antigone - Question re English/German translations

But then again if one so wishes can't most anything be  [ labeled as ]
"awesome"  nowadays ?

- Laval Hunsucker



On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:23 PM Ralph Hancock <[email protected]>
wrote:

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 meanin=
g?
> >
>
> 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
>