House Church Talk - Re: New Testament era literacy rate

[Mike Sangrey]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:47, DanG wrote:
> I look forward to your further presentations on the dandy word, Jim
> And then we might see MikeS provide more commentary - great.

<chuckle>

I guess I'll mention one other thing.  The people of the first century
had a perfectly good word for "religious meeting."  They used it all the
time.  The Jews used it; the Romans used it.  They all used it to refer
to their religious meetings.  And it, as Dan G. pointed out, was NOT
EKKLESIA.

It was SYNAGOGE.

Now...so not only did they choose to use a common political word, but
they chose NOT to use a common religious word.

Interesting, eh?
-- 
Mike Sangrey
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Landisburg, Pa.
                        "The first one last wins."
            "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."