On Tue 22 Aug 2000 (15:32:00), rltrapp@bluebunny.com wrote: > I think you got to the answer I was looking for in spite of my rather > dense question. I personally don't think EKKLHSIA had a specifically > religious tone in the NT but was wondering if it might have developed one > toward the end of the first century. In my humble opinion, EKKLHSIA began to be used for "church" when qualified as hH KURIAKH EKKLHSIA: the Lord's Assembly. It refers to the congregation gathered, not to the building in which they assembled. Later, by Synechdoche, the container for the contents, it began to connote the "Building" rather than the "congregation". KURIAKH has come into our language as Church; into German as Kirche. EKKLHSIA has come into French as E/glise. I'll stop before I get carried further away from the realms of b-greek... ERRWSQE Ben -- Revd Ben Crick, BA CF 232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK) http://www.cnetwork.co.uk/crick.htm --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu