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Seraph42 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Nuance between these two.

  • Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

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  • Seek the LORD until He may be found; call on Him until He is near.
  

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seraph42 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. This implies that later on he will have wandered off and won't be able to hear you, so you'd better get on it right away. This does not conform to anything in any religion I know about.

— Anonymous

  • seraph42 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
  • This implies that later on he will have wandered off and won't be able to hear you, so you'd better get on it right away.
  • This does not conform to anything in any religion I know about.
  • seraph42 Seek the LORD until He may be found; call on Him until He is near.
  • This uses a strange grammar with "until he may".
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seraph42Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

This implies that later on he will have wandered off and won't be able to hear you, so you'd better get on it right away. This does not conform to anything in any religion I know about.

seraph42Seek the LORD until He may be found; call on Him until He is n
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while is at the same time that something is happening; until involves a wait for something to happen.

CJ

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