Dear Howard and Rainer, The plural doesn't exist. Jesus was unique. It's like trying to find the masculine form of the French adjective, "enceinte", which means pregnant. "Examples" is plural, but "Jesus" is singular.
The correct phraseology should be, "These are actually pretty mild examples of a precocious-looking Jesus." Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spring, aus dem, Rainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:33 PM Subject: RE: Old religious paintings. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Howard Posner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 5:02 PM > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Old religious paintings. > > > > Herbert Ward wrote > > > > > These do not look like baby faces to me. Especially around > > the eyes. > > > I guess it (the adult face) was a symbol of authority which > > the folks > > > back then needed to feel secure, like they needed kings and an > > > infallible omnipotent Church. > > > > These are actually pretty mild examples of precocious-looking > > Jesuses (Jesi?). > > I think it's u-declination. Therefore the plural is Jesus with a long > "u". > > Best wishes, > > Rainer aus dem Spring To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
