We is a Plural Pronoun in the Typical English- A Mistake to Use it Out of Context

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Aug 14, 2008 at 18:33

If that is a reason you want someone whose first language is English, you might want to consider a rephrasing of the word you would like magnified, since WE has been the plural pronoun going back to at least the King James Version of the Holy Bible, from the time of James the first in the 17th Century.

It is more like a suggestion that whoever translated this from the Arabic missed this point, or in the alternative, does the word translated WE actually express the plural form of that pronoun. In that case, the idea of calling the Islamic Deity One gets lost in the translation.

This cannot be dismissed as just a semantic abberation in the use of the word WE to refer to the Deity of the Quran. It does not make logical sense.

In the context of emperors using the term, it was in reference to their being the representative of

1) the people

2) the deity they made themselves out to be

3) they had demons and like the demon that challenged Jesus, his name was legion, for they were many.

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