[B-Greek] What does this mean
Steven Lo Vullo
slovullo at mac.com
Fri Aug 20 21:37:05 EDT 2004
On Aug 20, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Remington186 at aol.com wrote:
> And her children (cognates) are: PISTEUMA, PISTEUTIKOS, PISTEUW,
> PISTEWS,
> PISTIKOS, PISTIS, PISTOS, PISTOTHS, PISTOW, KTL (and the rest).
> I shouldn't say this in the presence of so many experts but the
> majority of
> times these are used in the NT the translators totally miss the
> nuances and
> tend to call them all 'faith.'
But PISTEUMA, PISTEUTIKOS, and PISTOTHS are not used in the NT. PISTOW
is used only once. And PISTEWS is the genitive singular form of PISTIS.
I think you will find that many translations do in fact catch the
nuances of the words that are used in the NT in their respective
contexts.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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