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To: cuban leaf
Your Zsa Zsa analogy is perfect. That's why I try to find the context for the Bible and how the words in the Bible were used at the time of It's writing. That's what makes sense of it.

For example, I recently was reading a commentary on Matthew 5:5 and it was explained that the Greek word for "meek" (praÿs, pronounced prah-ooce)--as in "the meek will inherit the Earth"--was used by Greeks to mean, for example, a soldier who was potentially dangerous but kept his sword sheathed.

Meekness like that of Christ who could have ripped the world apart with one word but went quietly to the Cross.

Bible commentator David Guzik says this about the word "meek":

It is impossible to translate this ancient Greek word praus (meek) with just one English word. It has the idea of the proper balance between anger and indifference; of a powerful personality properly controlled; and of humility. Source
As they say, context is everything.
21 posted on 12/27/2018 12:46:47 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Moses was also meek.


35 posted on 12/27/2018 6:04:33 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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