Rude rood: Not "impolite" in English Versions of the Bible (except perhaps 2Macc 12:14), but "untrained," "ignorant"; compare the modern phrase, "a rude drawing." So Wisdom of Sirach 8:4 (apaideutos) and 2 Corinthians 11:6 (idiotes, `though I lack technical training in rhetoric'); compare the King James Version and the Revised Version margin Wisdom of Sirach 21:24.


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