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on the Scriptures Vol.1 page 1007 ***
Greek
Vocabulary. The Greek vocabulary is quite abundant
and exact. The Greek writer has at his disposal
sufficient words to enable him to make fine
differentiation and to convey just the shade of meaning
that he
desires. To illustrate, the Greek makes a distinction between ordinary
knowledge,
gno′sis (1Ti
6:20), and intensified knowledge, e‧pi′gno‧sis (1Ti 2:4), and between al′los (Joh 14:16),
meaning “another” of the same kind, and he′te‧ros, meaning “another” of a different kind. (Ga 1:6)
Many
expressions in other languages have incorporated Greek words as well as basic
roots
that comprise
Greek words, resulting in language that is more precise and specific in
expression.
He also gave many other exhortations . . .
Luke 3:18 NWT
. . . καὶ
and ἕτερα
different παρακαλῶν exhorting . . . interlinear
Then
it goes and takes along seven other
spirits . . . Luke 11:26 NWT
. . . καὶ
and παραλαμβάνει takes along ἕτερα
different πνεύματα spirits . . . interlinear
. . . the
other will be abandoned Luke 17:35 NWT
. . .
ἡ the δὲ but ἑτέρα
different [woman] ἀφεθήσεται.
will be let go off. interlinear
And
they said many other blasphemous things against
him. Luke 22:65 NWT
καὶ
And ἕτερα different (things) πολλὰ many βλασφημοῦντες blaspheming . . . interlinear
The
meaning of the word is the same in Greek or English i.e. heterosexual. Judging
by the last
sentence in the Insight article they know what the word means. Judging by how it is
rendered in
the
NWT they know what the word means. More to the point they know the word exists.
If they
believe God also knows the word exists and they
believe that God knows its meaning and they
believe that “God’s Word” is God’s words and if
the Greek language is “precise and
specific”
and God
wanted it to say this: (Colossians
1:16) . . .
by means of him all [other] things
were created. . . then
it would.
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w67 12/15 p. 753 par. 1 What Now
Distinguishes the Good News to Be Preached
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EVER since the end of the Gentile Times in 1914 something
of very present importance has been added
to the “good news of God” that Jesus Christ used to
preach in the Middle East,
preaching to as many cities as possible, just as he said on one occasion: “Also
to other cities I must declare the good news of the kingdom of God, because for
this I was sent forth.” (Luke 4:43; 8:1; 16:16) After his death and
resurrection and his glorification in heaven, his apostles and faithful
disciples preached the good news of the coming kingdom of God. (Acts 20:24, 25;
28:30, 31) What vital thing has now been added
to the good news of the kingdom of God that Jesus
Christ and his zealous apostles used to preach nineteen hundred
years ago? This, namely, the birth of God’s Messianic kingdom in the heavens at
the end of the Gentile Times in 1914.
I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the
One who called you with Christ’s undeserved kindness to another
sort of good news. Not that there is another good news; but there are
certain ones who are causing you trouble and wanting to distort the good news
about the Christ. However, even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare
to you as good news something beyond the good news we declared to you, let him
be accursed. As we have said before, I now say again, Whoever is
declaring to you as good news something beyond
what you accepted, let him be accursed. (“precise and specific”) (“abundant and exact”)
