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To: MarkBsnr
To rephrase: What justification is there for turning a simple descriptive noun into a title?

This is the same sleight of hand that turned diakonos into a title, Deacon, episkopos into Bishop, etc.

1,147 posted on 04/24/2010 10:42:18 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
This is the same sleight of hand that turned diakonos into a title, Deacon, episkopos into Bishop, etc.

The Apostles used sleight of hand? Good luck with that charge.

1,172 posted on 04/24/2010 12:10:32 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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