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daedelus901
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Message 43 of 47 (286674)
02-14-2006 8:40 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by metatron
11-24-2002 12:07 AM


Ancient saying???
Metatron, let me say that your quotes and inverted linguistic depiction is pseudo-scholarly flotsome and this is a compliment to you, believe me.
First, the passage from Matthew's Gospel was not an "ancient Christian saying", it was coined and stated first and only by Jesus Bar Joseph, i.e. Christ. The saying has never been discovered prior to His recorded historical statement.
Second, the Greek nominative "kamelos" in it's Nominative, Masculine, Singular form is the Greek transliterated form for "camel".
Third, Christians "stole it", from whom, Christ?
Last, linguistically, if Christ spoke Aramaic (and He Likely did in this passage as he was speaking of the Jewish elite), he would have used the Amamaic/Syriac word "gamela" which may mean in this context both "camel" or "rope". Given the sharp rhetoric of Christ and His wit to confound the haughty and arrogant, He likely meant both. I will leave you to figure out the reason and rest of it...if you can. You libs are so poorly educated and so quick to judge concerning what you do not understand. The basis for all the sciences emerged from a Reformation and Rennaissance brought to you by Christians...but you fully intend to go your own way...even to the end denying what Christians have done for you in scholastic, scholarly, and scientific matters.

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