In English grammar we have an element of speech often referred to as a gerund. Latin has gerunds (verbal nouns) and gerundives (verbal adjectives). Both translate into English as gerunds. A good example of a gerund is the word - "drinking" - in the following sentence -"Drinking too much is unwise."
We use gerunds every day in our spoken and written communications. Gerunds typically end with the suffix "-ing", e.g. - "I am sinking". In the recent revelation given to Warren Jeffs by God, demanding Barbie's immediate recusal from Jeffs' trial, one can clearly see that God is liking to using gerunds (as evidenced by their copious using throughout the revelation). Here is an excerpt (followed by a list of the gerunds used). Take a look -
" . . God is in the labor of this and other labor of pure way of truth, having full way of knowing what is in the heart of each person who is on my holy way of pure doing, to let them see I am the Doer of my Delivering for my Order of Eternal Union, of the holy noble way of my most pure way of pure abiding my law powering of pure holy labor in a full labor of my holy way being of Celestial power of my revealing truth."
"Dismissing, doing, recusing, doing, doing, titling, writing, having, knowing, doing, delivering, abiding, powering, doing, believing, pertaining, revealing, having, using, corrupting, revealings, defiling, ruling, heeding, allowing, protecting, having, deriding, having, giving, judging, considering, coming, abusing, abusing, taking, upbringing, care-taking, monitoring, corrupting, living, living, helping, allowing, training, living, being, abusing, deceiving, lying, doing, allowing, heralding, desecrating, revealing, abiding, guiding, exalting, being, requiring, desecrating, exalting, revealing, condemning, proceedings, rulings, allowing, defiling, administering, everlasting, being, governing, defiling, warning, rulings, keeping, setting, defiling, building, living, being, proceedings, heralding, judging, defiling, voicing, doings, appearing, cleansing, administering, honoring, living, revealing, suffering, revealing, being, judging, thinking, revealing, contemplating ruling, ruling, judging, revealing, administering, publishing, adjudicating, thinking, guiding, abiding, proceeding, doing, ruling, recusing, suffering, doing, persecuting, delivering, revealing, publishing, ruling, protecting, judging, knowing, assembling, doing, writing, abiding, removing, governing, governing, appearing, judging, exalting, repenting, doing."
I am thinking that that about sums it up, doesn't it? I only wonder how different the revelation would be, were it to have come through the pen of Dr. Seuss.
