Does anyone understand what this means?
"Take Thomas Boston. We are told that his language was "tasked and strained to the utmost, to admeasure and to understand."
I am told that this is meant to be a compliment but I don't see how.
Top answer
I agree. It doesn't sound like a compliment. Maybe more context would clarify this.
- I agree.
- It doesn't sound like a compliment.
- Maybe more context would clarify this.
- Clive
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I agree. It doesn't sound like a compliment. Maybe more context would clarify this.
Clive
0This quotation is from a 1912 book titled The Preacher, His Life and Work, by John Henry Jowett. Your full stop is wrong; the sentence waxes eloquent for many more lines.
We are told that his language was "tasked and strained to the utmost, to admeasure and to understand when he spoke of "those redemptive blessing which meet all men's necessities . . . the full and irrevocable fo
0coop1374his language was "tasked and strained to the utmost, to admeasure and to understand.
I take it as
He chose his words very carefully, working hard to make them say exactly what he meant, no more and no less, and to see to it that they were easy to understand.
CJ
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