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To: GiovannaNicoletta; editor-surveyor

Up until a few hundred years ago, the word rapture meant the kidnap/seizure and rape of a woman. Look it up, the history of words.


488 posted on 01/03/2014 2:55:08 PM PST by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: SisterK
So what? If you like, substitute the word "rapture", which is nothing more than an English transliteration of the Latin word "rapio" which is used in the Latin Vulgate in place of the original Greek "harpazo", with the Greek "harpazo".

It all means the same: a sudden snatching away. The particular word that is used is irrelevant as long as the intent and meaning of what the Author wrote remains the same.

489 posted on 01/03/2014 3:34:12 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta (In the last days, mockers will come with their mocking... (2 Peter 3:3))
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