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The χαριτόω (Charito'o) Argument
A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, aka BDAG (3rd edition), p. 1081, explains the meaning of χαριτόω thus: One of the techniques of those arguing that Mary was immaculately conceived is to load the word, χαριτόω, with special significance. We will take a broader look at the use of…
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Sword of Pain/Bereavement/Doubt in Mary's Heart?
John of Damascus, An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book IV, Chapter 14 But this blessed woman, who was deemed worthy of gifts that are supernatural, suffered those pains, which she escaped at the birth, in the hour of the passion, enduring from motherly sympathy the rending of the bowels, and when she beheld Him,…
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Jesus as the New Eve? Mary as the New Adam?
Ephrem the Syrian (AD 307-373), Saint Ephrem’s Commentary on Tatian’s Diatessaron, Carmel McCarthy trans., Chapter II, Sections 2-3 (pp. 60-61)(footnotes omitted, brackets and italics are McCarthy’s): §2. [Mary] gave birth without [the assistance of] a man. Just as in the beginning Eve was born of Adam without intercourse, so too [in the case of] Joseph…
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The Description, "Blessed Among Women," in the Angelic Address
Reading through the writing of one of the Latin speaking fathers, I encountered a point that I had not previously considered in terms of the testimony of the Scripture regarding Mary, the mother of my Lord. If I recall correctly, the author was considering the question of why does Paul say, “made of a woman,”…
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Jerome on Galatians 4:4-5
St. Jerome, Commentary on Galatians, Fathers of the Church Series, transl. Andrew Cain, (pp. 156-157), at Galatians 4:4-5 4-4-5. But when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, made of a woman and put under the Law to redeem those under the Law, so that we might receive the full rights of [adopted]…
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Will Kinney's Space Argument
Will Kinney sometimes argues that one of the signs that the King James is the perfect word is that a portion of it was read in space by the Apollo 8 astronauts. In a recent debate he stated: “… reasons why the King James Bible is God’s inerrant book and there are many reasons not…
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Synagogue as the Model of the Apostolic Church
Synagogue Rule in First Century Palestine The Greek word, συναγωγή (sunagogi aka synagogue), comes from the idea of gathering. Although the King James translators aimed to avoid using the cognate word for Christian assemblies, the Greek word is used of Christian assemblies in James 2:2 (For if there come unto your assembly a man with a…
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The 1881/94 Scrivener Textus Receptus is not the King James in Greek
While Scrivener was aiming to provide the Greek upon which the KJV was based, he did not always do so accurately. The most frequently cited example is Ephesians 6:24 where Scrivener omits the terminal Amen, presumably because the 1611 KJV omitted this word, although the Oxford/Blaney 1769 edition and the so-called Pure Cambridge Edition (1909)…
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Standing for Truth Debates – Index Page
Upcoming (updated January 7, 2025): [proposed – date not set] Debate | Chris Date vs. TurretinFan | Lake of Fire and the Second Death Completed 2024: 2024/12/11: The Nature of Hell Debate | TurretinFan vs. Curious Christianity – Eternal Torment vs. Annihilation 2024/11/16: The Great Total Depravity Debate | TurretinFan vs. Dr. Georges Antonios 2024/09/14: The…
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Bishops in the Bible
While it may not sound much like it, the English word “bishop” comes from Late Latin episcopus, from Greek episkopos, presumably via the Old Saxon biscop rather than via the French évêque, both of which ultimately trace back to the same Greek root. (source) In the New Testament, we see “ἐπισκοπή” (episkope), which is translated as the…