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It seems to me that Ronald Knox's On Englishing the Bible remarks that the "pale horse" of Revelations is "chloros" in the Greek.
by cafard 7y ago
It seems to me that Ronald Knox's On Englishing the Bible remarks that the "pale horse" of Revelations is "chloros" in the Greek.
- jazzyjackson 7y agoOh very interesting, thanks for the tip It seems this may be related to that wine-dark sea of homeric greek, I'm seeing some references that Chloros is also used to describe the color of honey ! a pale yellow, so that chloros might be more about brightness than hue. Another aeon article goes into detail... https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-gre... thanks again