Re: kosmos being translated as "Christians" or "God's people" or "the chosen"

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 23:20:25 EDT


At 6:45 PM -0600 4/11/00, Wayne Leman wrote:
>>
>>hO ESTIN MEQERMHNEUOMENON
>>
>>Words having the same form can have different meanings.
>
>Indeed, and in the commercial fishing family I come from, we illustrate it
>as:
>
>We can fish.
>
>it's a sign,
>IXQUS,
><:==}
>many fish,
>many carp,
>poly carp :)

Gee whiz, Wayne--and poly carp also implies a big catch, don't it?

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