AGAPH outside the New Testament
Jonathan Burke
jburke at sprint.com.au
Fri Jun 14 10:44:02 EDT 2002
Hi David,
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I think that it is a similar thing to English in this instance.
In English "love" can mean a pure, selfless emotion, or lust, or can relate
to enjoying chocolate.
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Yep, gotcha. Strong desire. That sort of thing. But I would expect
something like EPITHUMEO to be used. What's so special about AGAPH?
Why is it used in the NT alternately to PHILEO? And why is EROS never used?
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The problem seems to me to be the idea that each Greek word has a special
restricted meaning.
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The problem for me at the moment is finding a Greek meaning I can trust.
You quote a lexicon on B-Trans, and you get three people telling you why
it's out of date. :p
Jonathan Burke.
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