This could go in GQ since it is a simple question with, I’m guessing, a single answer.
However, since the question comes from the excellent column on angels by Dex, I figured I’d post it here.
In some of the biblical quotes,
for example,
the chapter and verse is followed by ff. I’ve looked around a bit and I can’t figure out what specifically this means.
FWIW, I’m interested in the subject and I have been looking into the cited verses for more information and I’m hoping to find more.
Not sure exactly what it stands for, but it means “and the rest of the chapter”. So Ezekiel 1:15ff would mean everything starting Ezekiel 1:15 and ending before Ezekiel 2:1.
Thanks ultrafilter.
Does this pretty much only come up in Bible verses?
I think I’ve seen it used to indicate something similar with page numbers. And you could certainly use it for anything else broken up into chapters and verses.
In any formal work, f. (and the following page) and ff. (and the following pages) are standard, but old-fashioned, notations. The Chicago Manual of Style (13th edition, at any rate) discourages its use, preferring that the full range of pages be written out, but you’ll find them used in a zillion older works.
I was eddycated back in the goodoledays, and was taught that “f” meant “following page” and “ff” meant “ffollowing pages.” Old fashioned, hmpfh.
PS - thanks for the compliments, Six, it was fun report to do.
That was a most excellent report.
Are you gonna tell us a story about how Santa was having a really bad year?
That’s the one, ultrafilter.
Now my curiosity has been piqued. Is this a story I can find in Ezekiel 1:15ff?
I’m sure someone will provide an online link, but IMHO, it’s a story that is better told, by a master story-teller, rather than read.
I’m a master debater, does that count for anything?
For some folks, that might be related to that story. It’s a matter of taste, I guess. 