Recent content by Arsenios

I thought both mean that unfruitful believers... whether Jew or Christian... are cut down at their roots... and cast into the fire... Meaning: "Be fruitful..." And showing a continuity between Old Testament and New...

What does this mean?

The Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Faith really needs face to face Services, because we partake of the Body and Blood of our Savior, and that Body and that Blood do not go online at all... As a fill in for those who cannot attend, it is a poor substitute, but yet a substitute, and if...

They kept the Orthodox Faith isolated from the rest of the world for a thousand years... A.

No offense at all, but no Christian Faith either... May your efforts be blessed... Generally speaking, it is not even the text that is so much in question, but its meaning... Illustrated by issues of back-translating the LXX of the BC Jews... Do the Jews affirm the historical Virgin Birth of...

No offense at all, but no Christian Faith either... May your efforts be blessed... Generally speaking, it is not even the text that is so much in question, but its meaning... Illustrated by issues of back-translating the LXX of the BC Jews... Do the Jews affirm the historical Virgin Birth of...

Indeed - Among them the one named Stephan, in whose martyrdom Saul of Tarsus participated... Holding the garments of the killers with their stones who saw his beautiful face as that of an angel, and killed him... There were two levels of Apostles from Christ - The 12, and the 70... The 12...

I agree with your first commentator here: Few agree on the basics, and I might add, none agree on who wrote it... What is needed, of course, would be a Synodia of pious English speaking Christians who are also speakers of both Hebrew AND Koine Greek... Who could discuss it in both...

LXX is an ancient Roman military unit? I mean, it is certainly in mathematical terms the NUMBER 70... Is there somewhere I can read about that? A.

Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews was written in their language and then rather woodenly translated into Greek, which is the only way to account for its awkward and strained Greek... This is a fairly commonplace understanding of that text... It was the Greek that was to be the language of the...

It should also be understood that the Masoretic Text MAY be considered to be more than a translation of the Original OT, in that it was undertaken for the purpose of re-creating that (lost) text in a more modern version of the Hebrew Language... So unlike the LXX, which is a Jewish translation...

Much of the NT Greek is a translation from Aramaic... eg The Book of Hebrews The Masoretic text is a translation of the Original unpointed Jewish Scrolls... So your pastor is translating a translation of the OT... A.