To: madison10; huckfillary; annalex
I guess huck you mean that we transliterate a name into English. That's true. And it's true for most languages. Take John, in English.
In Hebrew it is Yohanan, in Greek Ioannes as in Latin.
But if you look in Italy it is Giovanni, in German Johan or Hans, in Scandanavia and Poland Jan or Ivan, in Irish Sean, in French Jean, in Magyar Janos
42 posted on
08/28/2012 7:31:34 PM PDT by
Cronos
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To: Cronos; madison10; huckfillary
Mark, Marcus is specifically Latin name, given after Marcus, the Roman god of war. St. Mark the Evangelist's Hebrew name was in all probability John and Mark used as surname, see Acts 12:12. See also
Wiki and
Catholic Encyclopedia Luke, Lucas, is Greek, and St. Luke was Greek by origin, so it is probably the actual name of the Evangelist.
43 posted on
08/29/2012 5:49:54 AM PDT by
annalex
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