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Tag: Greek

  • Seven Sages and Revelation 16:5

    The Precepts of the Seven Sages (or “Sentences of the Seven Sages” or “Injunctions of the Seven Sages“) is a collection of concise wisdom.  There are nearly 150 statements in list, and seems to cover various moral and ethical rules in the form of maxims or gnomic commands.  They are thought to originate around the…

  • The Master who Bought Them in 2 Peter 2:1

    The Apostle Peter, writing 2 Peter 2:1, used the interesting phrase, “the Master who bought them,” to refer to false teachers.  Translated in the KJV by, “the Lord that bought them,” this verse has occasionally been brought out as a proof text against the Biblical doctrine of Limited atonement. The Greek word, ἀγοράζω (agorazo), finds…