Featured The Nature of the Church, OT and NT

I'm not holding my breath. It would seem that many (most?) of the posters in this thread have committed the root fallacy by insisting the meaning of the word εκκλησια is based on its etymology rather than (correctly) seeing that the meaning of the word, at the time it was given in the bible, should be understood by its philology.

Dr. Clearwaters used to tell us that a man could not claim good Theology or claim to be a Theologian until he mastered both the etymology and philology of the words in the bible.

In fact he strongly encouraged us to purchase our own personal copies of the Oxford English Dictionary which contains a thorough philological section defining the meaning of the word in common usage.

I bought the "compact" edition (only two huge volumes 12" by 16" and each volume about 4" thick) with four pages shrunk down and put on a single page (they even provided a magnifying glass to read it). It is still available from Amazon for $399 (or used from around $50). The full size 20 volume set is only $1118 plus tax, shipping and handling, of course.

 

He was a brilliant man. He had a Masters in New Testament Greek, having studied under Edgar Goodspeed, and, like Dr. Cedarholm, completed his work for a Ph.D. but found himself in dire financial straits and never completed his dissertation. But he did have the teaching of such greats as Robert Dick Wilson, R.A. Torrey, G. Campbell Morgan, Griffith Thomas and Billy Sunday to help shape his ministry.

Well, a thousand dollars was a little out of my price range. Okay, okay! Ten dollars would have been out of my price range! Look up "starving student" in the dictionary and all you will see is a picture of me!