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To: BenKenobi

IIRC, City of Brotherly Love.

However, I don’t usually play such guessing games.


317 posted on 06/15/2011 12:39:04 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix

“However, I don’t usually play such guessing games.”

Which comes from philo - “love”

and adelphoi - brethren.

Incidentally the same word, adelphoi, is the one used in Matthew 12 by Christ. We understand brothers in philadelphia to be broader than simply blood brothers, because that’s what the greek means.

In the same fashion, this is what Christ is saying here. That’s why adelphoi is used.

So you are right, Christ had a very specific idea that he was trying to get across. However, the idea he was using doesn’t back your interpretation.


321 posted on 06/15/2011 12:42:50 PM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman!)
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