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From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR)
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Subject: Re: Rereading
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 15:03:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 15:03:00 1985
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> Doesn't "scan" mean to read very closely or intently?  Should "skim"
> have been used here?  Sorry, old pet peeve...
> 					--rick heli

R.C. Sproul, KNOWING SCRIPTURE, pgs. 81-82

	"The word 'scan' was defined in English dictionaries within my
lifetime as meaning, "to read carefully, in close detail."  More recent
editions of dictionaries define 'scan' as "to skim over lightly."  Thus
the term has changed its meaning completely over the space of a few years.
What happened is that so many people misused the word that its misuse
became the 'customary meaning'"

(PS.  Excellent book on basic Bible interpretation)
^--"See, Gene, it's a review!"

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					AMBAR
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