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To: verga

With all due respect, nonsense. Eimi is simply the Greek verb of being. Estin is merely the third person singular form (”he/she/it is”), but eimi is first person singular (”I am”) of the same root (”see “I am the door” in John 10:7). It has no special Aristotelian meaning regarding the bread and wine, but any additional meaning must be found by inspecting the entire context of the term’s usage, and in this case no meaning even approximating transubstantiation can reasonably be extracted from the text.


119 posted on 08/05/2013 11:47:56 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer
So in your mind it depends on the definition of the word "is"?

How very Clintonesque of you. Please not each that the word "estin" is used. "Eimi" isn't used once.

Jesus said it Scripture recorded it, and I believe it.

131 posted on 08/06/2013 4:41:20 AM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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