Understanding English is made more difficult by the modern fashion for short sentences, but there are some ancient examples too.
First, I want to consider the way people say "The proof is in the pudding." This is a stupid comment as it stands, but it comes from the more logical "The proof (test) of the pudding is in the eating."
Second, consider 'please'. We use it as adverb, but it is the verb 'to please'. In the subjunctive mood it is properly rendered as "if it please you" as in "If it please you, give me a tip." Thus the verb 'please' is being asked to stand for an Adverb Subordinate Clause that modifies the verb of the Main Clause 'give'.
Now about "hoping against hope", one starts with the Bible where Paul is speaking about Abraham and Sara: "Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God". Romans 4:18-20 Now about "hope", Pastor Richard Onebamoi, has distinguished between the first hope and the second one. He tells us that first hope is a supernatural one that is based on God's word and promise, that is on spiritual belief, and it is opposed against the natural hope that is based on scientific fact or experience. Abraham was hoping for paternity, expecting something good, against the fact that he and Sara were too old to have children.
First, I want to consider the way people say "The proof is in the pudding." This is a stupid comment as it stands, but it comes from the more logical "The proof (test) of the pudding is in the eating."
Second, consider 'please'. We use it as adverb, but it is the verb 'to please'. In the subjunctive mood it is properly rendered as "if it please you" as in "If it please you, give me a tip." Thus the verb 'please' is being asked to stand for an Adverb Subordinate Clause that modifies the verb of the Main Clause 'give'.
Now about "hoping against hope", one starts with the Bible where Paul is speaking about Abraham and Sara: "Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God". Romans 4:18-20 Now about "hope", Pastor Richard Onebamoi, has distinguished between the first hope and the second one. He tells us that first hope is a supernatural one that is based on God's word and promise, that is on spiritual belief, and it is opposed against the natural hope that is based on scientific fact or experience. Abraham was hoping for paternity, expecting something good, against the fact that he and Sara were too old to have children.
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