The Assumption (κοίμησις, in the Greek Church), celebrated originally at different times, but fixed to be on the 15th of August about the time of Charlemagne. Besides the great festivals in honor of Mary, particular churches and fraternities have had their private ones. Several...
inGreek mythologyas an alternative name for Demeter, thegoddess of agriculture and fertility. She’s referred to as Chloe in the spring months because of the name’s relation to sprouts and growth. But in the Bible, Chloe was mentioned in the New Testament as the name of a Greek Christian...
In this particular case, then, using Mastnjak’s approach suggests that the late appending of the bronze altar (on account that it presupposed the Korah narrative) could easily be flipped: the bronze altar was part of the Greek text and Old Latin, and scribes eventually added the narrative ...
While the Bible does not specifically refer to “narcissism” – which takes its name from Greek mythology – it does speak to the subject. The introductory statement ofPsalm 59says: “For the choir director; set toAl-tashheth. AMikhtamof David, when Saul sent men and they watched the hous...
I like the concordance stuff, where these various bible programs will link you to the original greek/hebrew dictionary and they cross reference / cross-link to other versus using the same greek or hebrew words. That’s pretty good stuff. Well, I’m going to stick with the JKV perso...
Mr Armchair: That’s true but it doesn’t specifically show them receiving communion. That’s the standard you gave me for baptism. Also babies fall under the broad categories of male, female, Jew, and Greek and can certainly be part of the Body of Christ but you don’t commune them....
In Egypt, wine was used for medicinal purposes; it was employed in the offerings made to the deities; Osiris was popularly believed to be identical with the Greek Bacchus, and was represented to have been the first who found the vine and taught men its cultivation; wine was imported into ...
For example, “head” in koine Greek never/ very seldom had any inkling of leadership in it. In English it is a major definition, so it is not the perfect way to translate the Greek in “the man is the head of the woman.” To then refer to the text “the man is the head of ...
language, but he is learning it. Wanting to spend more time with my kids this summer, and seeing a voracious appetite for learning in myfive-year-old son, I offered to help him learn a language. I told him I could offerHebrew(of the biblical variety),Greek(koine/New Testament), and...
durable non-tarnishing luster, shimmering beauty, ductility, and malleability. A number of Old Testament Hebrew terms refer to gold, such as zahav, charuts, kethem, paz, seghor, and ophir. In the New Testament, the Greek words khrysos and khrysion are used as reference to ornaments, coin...