To: NYer
Reading "priest" into presbuteros is akin to reading "dynamite" into dunamis, the Greek word for power. It is called an anachronism, i.e., reading a later, derived meaning into an earlier form of the word. We would never say that we have received the "dynamite" of the Holy Spirit, since dynamite as we know it did not exist in the first century. Neither should we read "priest" into presbuteros because priests, as we know them, did not exist in the first century and would have been unrecognizable to the first century writers of the Bible.
To: Juan Medén
Neither should we read "priest" into presbuteros because priests, as we know them, did not exist in the first century and would have been unrecognizable to the first century writers of the Bible. And the oak looks nothing like the acorn.
41 posted on
07/03/2008 1:06:06 PM PDT by
Petronski
(Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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