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To: P-Marlowe
Your dictionary is incomplete. There are older senses of the term, rooted in the Latin etymology of ad-sumere, to "take on", "put on", to "take upon oneself".

-A8

3,078 posted on 12/29/2006 8:11:52 AM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8

One puts on a costume. One takes on a role. Take on and Put On and Take upon oneself doesn't indicate that He BECAME flesh.


3,087 posted on 12/29/2006 8:58:23 AM PST by Blogger
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