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To: RnMomof7; kosta50
God chose Greek as the language of the New Testament because it is a precise language

I don't know -- is that correct, Kosta?
1,741 posted on 01/18/2006 11:43:18 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia!)
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To: Cronos; RnMomof7
I don't know -- is that correct, Kosta?

I am Serbian. Kolokotronis is your resident Greek expert. That being said, I would add that God chose Greek for both the New and Old Testament for His New Covenant. The Gospels refer to verses from the Septuagint (LXX), remember?

I am not sure how precise the language is. But it is liturgical. In other words, it is capable of expressing divine concepts unlike ordinary vernacular. Thus, Latin had to develop into a liturgical language and Church Slavonic was specifically developed by SS Cyrill and Methodius as a liturgical language.

From what I know of Slavonic, it is capable of forming intricate concepts that correspond word-by-word, and grammatically, tense-by-tense, to the Greek original.

1,773 posted on 01/19/2006 6:44:21 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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