OIKOS vs OIKIA

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue May 1 09:55:13 EDT 2001


At 01:58 30/04/01, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:

>However, it is clear
>that KAT' OIKON can refer to the church meeting in a private home.

as opposed to  Ac. 14:23
XEIROTONHSANTES DE AUTOIS KAT' EKKLHSIAN PRESBUTEROUS,
This use of KAT' EKKLHSIAN is a hapax  in Acts  as against 3 occurrences of 
KAT' OIKON ).

Haenchen comments -- not on KAT' EKKLHSIAN, but on Luke's use of 
XEIROTONHSANTES --- that Luke has simply taken for granted that the 
ecclesiastical constitution of his own day existed in the time of Paul, as 
against the " the community organization which emerges from the genuine 
Paulines " ; a comment which surely can equally be applied to the use of 
EKKLHSIA?




Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie






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