"Discrepant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... haesan syllalountes to Iaesoy.]"—"Et apparuit illis Elias cum Mose, et erant colloquentes Jesu."—Montanus. "Et visus est eis Elias cum Mose, qui colloquebantur cum Jesu."—Beza. This is as discrepant as our version, though not so ambiguous. The French Bible avoids the incongruity: "Et iis virent paroitre Moyse et Elie, qui s'entretenoient avec Jesus." That is, "And there appeared to them Moses and Elias, who were talking ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown |
