Talk:render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's
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Tagged but not listed. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 16:59, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
- Abstain. I don't know how it's used in English, so I'm not casting any vote yet. Is render unto Caesar better? --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 16:59, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, I think render unto Caesar is better. I doubt that the line is often quoted in full. — SGconlaw (talk) 08:09, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
- It could be an alternative form of render unto Caesar.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:22, 20 February 2018 (UTC)- The King James Version has unto. --Lambiam 13:43, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
- It could be an alternative form of render unto Caesar.
- Yes, I think render unto Caesar is better. I doubt that the line is often quoted in full. — SGconlaw (talk) 08:09, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
- Keep, I prefer the full version, it makes more sense. It's certainly not gibberish as suggested in the RFD notice (what cheek!). DonnanZ (talk) 23:35, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- An inexperienced puppetmaster trying to play innocent... —suzukaze (t・c) 02:39, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
- If it's attested, keep it. Whichever form isn't lemmatized can soft- (or hard-) redirect to whichever form is lemmatized. - -sche (discuss) 17:16, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- It's attested in millions of bibles, I would have thought. And it doesn't stop there... DonnanZ (talk) 00:10, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
As a translation of a Greek phrase (Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι) there are a range of variations in how it is written in English. Here's a Google Ngram of some (constrained by the five word limit in search terms) to consider as alternative formations. The term render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's is the most common. -Stelio (talk) 09:46, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- Kept. No consensus.--Jusjih (talk) 03:23, 14 July 2018 (UTC)