EKKLHSIA
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Tue Jan 16 03:30:56 EST 2001
In a message dated 1/14/2001 3:07:49 PM Central Standard Time,
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
> Au contraire! EKKLHSIA is by no means infrequent in the LXX (I just found,
> as I expected, 100 instances of it. EKKLHSIA has, if anything, political
> baggage in Greek usage. I would disagree too with the notion that "the new
> church was not a 'Jewish' thing; I think that at the outset it was very
> much a 'Jewish' thing, and even if the testimony of Acts is relatively
> late, yet it is based on sources, of which there is also plenty of evidence
> in the Synoptic gospels, that the Gentile mission was strongly resisted by
> those who did not want the gospel to go beyond Israel.
>
Although what Carl states is true, I don't think it goes far enough
(historically). Subsequent to 70 A.D. there was a definite break with the
synagogue. The Jews anathematized the Christians and the Christians
responded in kind. These feelings of antipathy between the two groups had
been brewing for some time prior to the destruction of Jerusalem. This may
be the ultimate reason for the use of EKKLHSIA rather than SUNAGOGH -- an
interfamilial sqabble.
gfsomsel
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