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To: annalex; metmom; Greetings_Puny_Humans

>> “in Luke 1:43 she is called “the mother of my Lord”, which is the biblical word for God throughout the Bible.” <<

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No, that is not correct.

The convention in English Bibles is that when the reference is to YHVH, then it is rendered “LORD,” but Lord is not a reference to God, but simply equivalent to “master” or “leader.”


830 posted on 09/02/2013 6:23:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor; metmom; Greetings_Puny_Humans
when the reference is to YHVH, then it is rendered “LORD,” but Lord is not a reference to God, but simply equivalent to “master” or “leader.”

Luke's Gospel is written in Greek, where no similar distinction can be made.

η μητηρ του κυριου(Luke 1:43)

Searching for κυριος in the Septuagint yields:

και εφυτευσεν κυριος ο θεος παραδεισον (Genesis 2:8), and in that vein a couple of hundred references in Genesis alone.

And how do you imagine Elizabeth had her niece's baby for a "leader"?

836 posted on 09/03/2013 5:46:26 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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