[b-greek] Re: EKKLHSIA

From: Polycarp66@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 03:30:56 EST


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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 1/14/2001 3:07:49 PM Central Standard Time,
<BR>cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Au contraire! EKKLHSIA is by no means infrequent in the LXX (I just found,
<BR>as I expected, 100 instances of it. EKKLHSIA has, if anything, political
<BR>baggage in Greek usage. I would disagree too with the notion that "the new
<BR>church was not a 'Jewish' thing; I think that at the outset it was very
<BR>much a 'Jewish' thing, and even if the testimony of Acts is relatively
<BR>late, yet it is based on sources, of which there is also plenty of evidence
<BR>in the Synoptic gospels, that the Gentile mission was strongly resisted by
<BR>those who did not want the gospel to go beyond Israel.
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<BR>Although what Carl states is true, I don't think it goes far enough
<BR>(historically). &nbsp;Subsequent to 70 A.D. there was a definite break with the
<BR>synagogue. &nbsp;The Jews anathematized the Christians and the Christians
<BR>responded in kind. &nbsp;These feelings of antipathy between the two groups had
<BR>been brewing for some time prior to the destruction of Jerusalem. &nbsp;This may
<BR>be the ultimate reason for the use of EKKLHSIA rather than SUNAGOGH -- an
<BR>interfamilial sqabble.
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<BR>gfsomsel</FONT>
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