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Mark 9
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mark.9.m9Bleacher
οἷα γναφεὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς οὐ δύναται οὕτως λευκᾶναι
GRAMMARTRANSLATIONmoderate confidence
How does Mark compare the whiteness of Jesus’s garments?
Mark uses an earthy trade comparison: no fuller or cloth-bleacher on earth could whiten them that way.
Why this default
‘As no fuller on earth is able to whiten them’ is default because it retains Mark’s concrete comparison with an ancient cloth worker and the emphatic earthly limitation. ‘Cloth-bleacher’ explains the trade, while the generalized human-process option removes Mark’s deliberately ordinary occupational image.
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Project defaultas no fuller on earth is able to whiten them
Project default · ancient trade
Alternativewhiter than any cloth-bleacher on earth could make them
Occupation explained
Alternativewhiter than any human process on earth could produce
Meaning generalized
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