By asking Peter, “Do you love me?” three times, Jesus was emphasizing the importance of Peter’s love and unswerving obedience to his Lord as necessary for his future ministry. He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He sometimes lacked wisdom, but never action. Simon. However, Samuel Johnson himself was born and raised not in the south of England, but in the West Midlands (specifically, Lichfield, Staffordshire), where the usage of thou persists until the present day (see below), so it is not surprising that he would consider it entirely ordinary and describe it as such. The New Revised Standard Version (1989) omits thou entirely and claims that it is incongruous and contrary to the original intent of the use of thou in Bible translation to adopt a distinctive pronoun to address the Deity. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Singular. LOVEST THOU ME? In Leonard Cohen's song "Bird on the Wire", he promises his beloved that he will reform, saying "I will make it all up to thee." Similarly, the 1989 Revised English Bible dropped all forms of thou that had appeared in the earlier New English Bible (1970). ][citation needed] Thou is also used in the Persona series regularly in the phrase, "I am thou, thou art I"—a localization of the original Japanese use of the archaic second-person pronoun nanji (and ware in the first person). Many European languages contain verbs meaning "to address with the informal pronoun", such as German duzen, the Norwegian noun dus refers to the practice of using this familiar form of address instead of the De/Dem/Deres formal forms in common use, French tutoyer, Spanish tutear, Swedish dua, Dutch jijen en jouen, Ukrainian тикати (tykaty), Russian тыкать (tykat'), Polish tykać, Romanian tutui, Hungarian tegezni, Finnish sinutella, etc. From philos; to be a friend to (an individual or an object), i.e. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular. May 14, 2014 - Scripture of the Day - May 14, 2014 Psalm 136: 6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. The use persists somewhat in the West Country dialects, albeit somewhat affected. The forms thou and thee are often transposed. He said to him, Feed my sheep. Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? "O FRIEND! Joh 21:15 Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? A cognate form of this pronoun exists in almost every other Indo-European language. When thou is the grammatical subject of a finite verb in the indicative mood, the verb form typically ends in -(e)st (e.g., "thou goest"; "thou do(e)st"), but in some cases just -t (e.g., "thou art"; "thou shalt"), although in some dialects of Old English (mainly in the North), this verb form ended in -s, hence the Quaker habit of using what looks like the third-person form of the verb with "thee" as the subject (paralleling the usage of "you"). Psalm 88:5 Psalm 88 Psalm 88:7. The use of the word "thee" in the song "I Predict a Riot" by Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs ("Watching the people get lairy / is not very pretty, I tell thee") caused some comment[43] by people who were unaware that the word is still in use in the Yorkshire dialect. [13], In Old English, thou was governed by a simple rule: thou addressed one person, and ye more than one. Thou is the nominative form; the oblique/objective form is thee (functioning as both accusative and dative), the possessive is thy (adjective) or thine (as an adjective before a vowel or as a pronoun) and the reflexive is thyself. To love Thee as Thou lovest me I must borrow Thy very Love - then only, can I find rest. Rev. The e in the ending is optional; early English spelling had not yet been standardized. From poimen; to tend as a shepherd of. Second; with the article: in the second place, for the second time. from -es to modern English -est, which took place separately at around the same time in the closely related German and West Frisian languages, is understood to be caused by an assimilation of the consonant of the pronoun, which often followed the verb. This system might seem fair humanly speaking as everyone has a say in how the country is run. In Lancashire and West Yorkshire, ta was used as an unstressed shortening of thou, which can be found in the song "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at". Lord, master, sir; the Lord. But as the use of thou in non-dialect English began to decline in the 18th century,[18] its meaning nonetheless remained familiar from the widespread use of the latter translation. JOHN 21:15-17. "Save when there shall be no poor with thee." | MP4 | RSS: Text-Featuring a sermon is a less expensive way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands on the right bar with optional newsletter inclusion. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him, Feed My lambs.' In Ken Loach's films Kes, The Price of Coal and Looks and Smiles, the word is used frequently in the dialogue. This usage in Lancashire is becoming rare, except for elderly and rural speakers. Early English translations of the Bible used the familiar singular form of the second person, which mirrors common usage trends in other languages. 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