[B-Greek] Acts 16:5
Dony K. Donev
dony at cupandcross.com
Thu Apr 1 09:17:52 EST 2004
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You will find references like this quite often: 1 Cor 14
As in all the churches of the saints, the women should be silent in the churches...
Churches in the plural will generally reference the meeting places OF THE SAINTS. They most often met in house-churches, but occasionally met in "buildings" as you see later in Acts.
The easiest way to research this would simply be to look up all the plurals of church. This shouldn't take but a few minutes. There's not that many. I got 33 hits when I searched for "houses" in the NET Bible search engine, and many of these were located in the footnotes.
Waldo
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Can I safely assume that "quite often" doesn't mean always? I found the following uses of the plural of EKKLESIAH which do not sound like places, house churches or buildings, but rather actual people/congregations:
Acts 15:41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
Acts 16:5 And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily
1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
2 Corinthians 8:19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind: {grace: or, gift}
2 Corinthians 8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Revelation 2:29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Dony K. Donev
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