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To: Sopater

I had someone tell me that it meant *Breasted one*.

I thought that was odd, and just kind of blew it off.


25 posted on 02/09/2018 2:07:37 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom

They are wrong in their interpretation of the word, but I imagine that in attempting to ascribe a physical appearance to a spiritual being, God would have a breast:

“...and having on the breastplate of righteousness...”

Of course He has no physical body, in spite of Jesus sitting at His right hand! (I’m guessing that the term “right hand” has a deeper meaning, more of a position of authority, rather than any physical thing.)

I love learning about the deeper meaning of the Greek words. I asked my pastor about the verse where the leper went to Jesus to be healed, and it said Jesus was indignant - and then healed him.

The pastor didn’t know if it was the same word in the verse I asked him about, but he said it is probably from the Greek word “????? (I don’t recall now)”, which translates to “makes me sick”. Jesus could have been so upset at the leper’s plight that he felt it in his gut, and healed him.

Or he said - Jesus may have looked at the Pharisees that ignored the leper, and looking at them with the look of “YOU make me sick!!” and then healing the leper.


29 posted on 02/09/2018 2:52:36 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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