“You’re a man after my own heart” says one country music fan to another. “You’re a woman after my own heart” says the man to his new girlfriend as she serves him his favourite dessert. These are common ways that we use the phrase today. But they are subtly different from each other. In the […]
This blog highlights the impact of the King James Bible on English. Yet this phrase shows that many times the influence went the other way. It was the culture that shaped the translation of this verse. It comes in 1 Samuel after the people had asked for a king (1 Samuel 8:5-9). There had been […]
