Jesus Will Forgive – but I’m Not Sure About Their Supervisors
We all know that to err is human. And we’ve also all heard some variant of, “If you’re gonna screw up, you might as well make it a good one.”
Well, it seems as if one – or perhaps several – folks in the Vatican took those sayings to heart recently. Here’s an image of a new Papal Medal commemorating Pope Francis’ first year as Pope:
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t ever remember hearing that Latin inscriptions often used the letter “L” in place of a “J”. Or that Jesus of Nazareth really spelled His name with an “L”, either. (smile)
A total of 6,000 of the Papal Medals were reportedly minted in silver and bronze, and 200 in gold. Oopsie.
More details can be found here.
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows
To quote the Gunny from The Damn Few:
Gaaaaaadddd-dammit!
I’m trying REALLY HARD to care about this.
Really.
Definitely a backward ‘J’.
Maybe whoever called in the order had a fuckin’ harelip.
Maybe they were hoping Lesus would be more forgiving of institutions that are complicit in enabling the sexual abuse of children with systematic cover ups…having read the bible a time or three it’s pretty clear that Jesus is not much for forgiving child molesters, what with the millstone around the neck and drowning thing….
4–Italian harelip? I’m seeing a joke here, but it’s really, really offensive.
Um shouldn’t that be an “I” not a “J” since Latin doesn’t have a “J”.
To miss quote a movie:
“But in the Latin alphabet, “Jehovah” begins with an “I”.”
-Ish
He actually would have spelled his name with a “yud” anyway.
True, BK – but they were writing the inscription in Latin, not Hebrew or Aramaic. (smile)
I’m not really strong on my Aramaic – Greek – Latin translations, but isn’t “Jesus” Greek?
PintoNag: for what it’s worth, Wikipedia says that the name “Jesus” resulted from the Greek transliteration “Iesous” (expressed in the Latin alphabet) of the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (variants: “Joshua” and “Jeshua”). Dunno how accurate that is, but it seems to match/be close to my recollection of what I read or heard a number of years ago.
I think I see what happened: the engraver who was writing the inscription fell asleep while he was doing the tiny script and his little bitty tool slid over to stretch the ‘I’ into an ‘L’.
It’s not that much of a stretch.
@6 really offensive is usually what I am for. Really really offensive is a bonus.
“L,” “I,” whatever, I’ll take two of each metal, please.
OK, 1 ea, will be fine.
now that’s a typo that’ll get you in Dutch with your employer. What do you do for an encore – move to Iran and misspell Mohammed?
OWB: contact the Vatican. I hear they might have a few available for sale (6,200 or so). And you might be able to negotiate a discount as compensation for the misspelled inscription. (smile)
I don’t know about being able to get one, or what they might cost.
“The Wicked Bible” (or “The Sinner’s Bible”) — the 1631 reprint of the KJV that had the Commandment “Thou shalt commit adultery” — can still be found and purchased. However, only eleven survived, the rest were collected and burned. Asking price for a copy? $89,500.
I suspect these medals will jump in value rather quickly, and be snapped up by collectors.
Lesus Ehrist! What a huckup!
If I could buy one of those, I would. Big deal things that are mistakes become more valuable than the “correct” things. Just something to think about…
There is no J in the Roman Latin alphabet. There is no U or W either. L is used in place of J and V is used in place of U.
So this does say Jesus, it seem to say something about tax collectors. And being his deciple. My latin is not that great. Its a Referance to Matthew I think.
I think the Vatican went old old school and are now back peddling
The Pope has challenge coins now?
Enigma4You: not sure about the “L” in place of “J” in Latin. What I’ve seen indicates “I” was typically used in lieu of the letter “J” vice “L”. I’ve also read that the letter “J” was actually a Germanic-language addition to the alphabet, used to convey sounds in Germanic languages that didn’t really have an equivalent in Latin itself.
I’ve seen accounts indicating that the original spelling of “Jesus” in Latin was “Iesous”, with a bar accent (indicating “long-e” sound) over the letter “e”. I guess those accounts could be wrong, though.
I learned everything I need to know about Latin from Dr. Jones.