Comments on: Hallowed

By: Scripture Zealot

Scripture Zealot — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:42:43 +0000

I have Askimet enabled but I still get a few annoying spam messages a day. I really liked that particular captcha and it eliminated the spam so I’m going to look at the code to see if I can see anything or possibly try another one.

Thanks for fixing it.
Jeff

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:46:51 +0000

Looks like you have fixed the problem by disabling captcha. I suggest you enable Akismet to catch most spam comments, if you haven’t already, and then you shouldn’t get too much spam.

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:45:32 +0000

Well, let’s see if “quotes” work OK in this.

By: Scripture Zealot

Scripture Zealot — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:48:30 +0000

I think you’re onto something. I’ve switched back to UTF-8 and disabled the captcha. If you see this and would like to test it please do. Thanks.
Jeff

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:28:43 +0000

Quotes still do not work.

I see you have changed the encoding of this blog from UTF-8 to Western (without properly indicating this in your HTML), which has messed up the Greek in your post quoting ISBE which looked OK before. You really should stick to UTF-8 for a blog, especially if you are going to quote in non-Roman scripts. I guess you were trying to fix the quote problem, but that is not the problem.

I wonder if the problem is actually with your captcha plugin, which may be messing up the comment text. If the captcha is disabled when you yourself comment, that would explain why you can put quotes in comments but others cannot. I use Peter(quote)s Custom for captcha, which does not have this problem.

By: Scripture Zealot

Scripture Zealot — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:51:01 +0000

Testing “quotes”. Not sure what’s going on there either.

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:38:17 +0000

Thanks, Jeff. I think the ISBE makes the main point I was trying to make, about the many other occurrences of the same verb translated (open quote)sanctify(close quote) etc.

It seems your comment box has problems quote marks of any kind.

By: Scripture Zealot

Scripture Zealot — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:47:01 +0000

Hi,
Yow. I’m so sorry that happened. I have no idea why. I’m using a pretty standard Wordpress install. I didn’t get your comment through my e-mail either.

I had a comment on another blog put in Wordpress’ spam filter once because it contained too many links.

I’d like to know what you said if you have the time. You could email me and I’d post it. If you’d rather not spend the time again that’s OK.

I got my info from ISBE:
In the New Testament “hallow” occurs only in the “Lord’s Prayer,” there rendering αγιαζω,
hagiazo , the Septuagint word for kadhashh : Mat 6:9; Luk 11:2, “Hallowed be thy name.” Hagiazo is
quite frequent in the New Testament, and is always (American Standard Revised Version)
rendered “sanctify,” except here, and in Rev 22:11, “He that is holy, let him be made holy still.”

I should have read that more carefully.
Jeff

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:36:27 +0000

I didn’t know this either, and I discovered why: it is not true! Well, it may be true of this particular form of the verb, that it occurs in only these two places. … I spent a long time researching this verb and writing a comment about it, but the comment was both truncated and rejected. Why?