Please Forgive My Flagitious Language
•March 10, 2021•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer
I might have mentioned that I am not a Bible scholar, though I did read it, along with the awful allegory “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” and some political science tomes that were on the family bookshelf of my youth because I would read anything at eye level.
From time to time, though, I find myself running through a passage in the Bible in search of a word.
“I found a great word in 2 Maccabees in the Bible,” reader Cynthia Cwynar wrote to me. “‘Flagitious,’ meaning ‘criminal, villainous.’
Try saying it, though.”
Fluh-JI-shuss. That’s not so hard!
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