Unique among the teams competing on the fields of life during this hallway of time, was the Church. Their foundation originates in a land much more eastward than the Normans and Saxons. Palestina was the franchise location and interestingly, one man seemed to start the game plan.
So here goes. First, the very foundation of Christianity can be shown in the original text as follows. The intent is to give the recorded text as written in the Greek.
You can visualize and read the text as written.
The next figure gives the same text, only with an English meaning, written for each word in the Greek. This gives a translation to the Greek words which you can compare word for word. No comments from me!
The Zondervan Parallel New Testament in Greek and English, Zondervan Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1975. p. 273.
Core concepts build the foundations for all the teams playing on the fields of time being discussed. For "The Church" it would seem that the most dynamic thought (among those dressing out in the locker rooms) would be "all". A simple Greek word written in English as "PAS" having primary roots; all, any, every, the whole. Thus, any (one), every (one), or " whosoever" might be the intended message. Can you believe it? A thought against every flow of the minds during this time! Status and rank demanded a separation between every individual. Now here comes the concept of "everyone" centered about a person, not a status or a rank, or an Empire, or government, or society, or culture! Against the flow, way to go.
ReplyDeleteP.S. reference: "Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament, by W.J. Hickie, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1977, (p. 143).