[B-Greek] Sudject ekklesia(church)
Barry Hofstetter
nebarry at verizon.net
Wed Jun 16 14:05:40 EDT 2004
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From: "Rick Seivert" <rmooster at baldwin-telecom.net>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:51 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Sudject ekklesia(church)
> Hey everyone
> Thanks for letting me join
> I want people to check out this part of a letter I had written.
>
>
> So now I want to read out of the New Strong's concordance what it says on
> this word.
>
> " was used among the Greeks of a body of citizens "gathered" to discuss the
> affairs of state, acts 19:39"
>
> Strait out of the Strong's Concordance, the very meaning that the word we
> use "church", was the people who met to discuss the affairs of the state. I
> would fully expect the pacifists to be kicking and screaming when they read
> this, but it is the truth.
I think this post probably goes way beyond the B-Greek charter: we are supposed
to be discussing Greek, not theology. However, let me point out that words have
a semantic range: EKKLHSIA means simply assembly, and can refer either to a
secular gathering, or to God's people, hence what in English we normally mean by
the word "church."
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te...
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