Page 5 - Forgive

remember our enemies always. But on the mountain I

was alone with this man. The one who had sorcerized my

father and he died. We were alone on the path. The man

my relatives had told me I should kill; if I ever had the

chance. He was just a few feet ahead of me. Steep cliffs

on the right side and steep cliffs on the left side. I could

easily run up and push him to his death. I thought about

how easy it would be to kill him. Then I thought about

how God had blessed me. I had a good wife and three

healthy daughters. I thought about our work here on the

translation of God’s word. Having thought about all that

I ‘Threw his offences away’.

Now I knew that you could throw spears, water and

garbage but I didn’t know you could throw ‘offences’. Now

the word offences; these are what we call body part

“idioms” in ONO. The word Offence means something

that irritates or burns your nose. So the whole phrase

‘Throw away those things that burn your nose’ is quite

powerful in Ono.