Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Hebrew (chatá) and its Greek equivalent (àμaρtίa/hamartia) both mean "missing the mark" or "off the mark". [23] [24] [25] There are four basic usages for hamartia: Hamartia is sometimes used to mean acts of sin "by omission or commission in thought and feeling or in speech and actions" as in Romans 5:12, "all have sinned". [26]
When Luke 20:37 refers to Exodus 3:6, he quotes from "Moses at the bush", i.e. the section containing the record of Moses at the bush. Mark 2:26 refers to 1 Samuel 21:1–6, in the words "in the days of Abiathar". Romans 11:2 refers to 1 Kings ch. 17–19, in the words, "in Elias", i.e. in the portion of the history regarding Elias.
The word rhei (ρέι, cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream"; according to Plato's Cratylus, it is related to the etymology of Rhea. πάντοτε ζητεῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν pántote zeteῖn tḕn alḗtheian "ever seeking the truth" — Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers [24] — a characteristic of ...
Title and first words of the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI. For other meanings see Deus caritas est (disambiguation). deus ex machina: a god from a machine: From the Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēchanēs theós). A contrived or artificial solution, usually to a literary plot.
The verse is paralleled in Mark 9:50; [5] Luke 14:34–35 also has a version of this text similar to the one in Mark. [6] There are a wide number of references to salt in the Old Testament. Leviticus 2:13, [7] Numbers 18:19, [8] and 2 Chronicles 13:5 [9] all present salt as a sign of God's covenant.
Sin has many classifications and degrees, but the principal classification is that of "missing the mark" (cheit in Hebrew). [ 32 ] [ better source needed ] Some sins are punishable with death by the court, others with death by heaven, others with lashes, and others without such punishment, but no sins committed with willful intentions go ...
Another saying that employs similar vocabulary to that used in Luke rather than Mark is saying 31 in the original Greek (Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1), where Luke 4:24's term dektos (' acceptable ') [75] is employed rather than Mark 6:4's atimos (' without honor '). [76] The word dektos (in all its cases and genders) is clearly typical of Luke, since ...
His letters were originally written in Greek and therefore the choice of the word was deliberate and the sophisticated choice of an educated man. In Romans 15:20 he makes it his philotimo (he uses the verb φιλοτιμέομαι , [ philotiméome ] [ 4 ] ) to preach the good news of the Gospel to people who have not heard it.