On May 10, 10:54 am, "Mark T" <snailmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <roym...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >> All nations means all nations of the World so all will have no
>>>>
> >> >> excuse that they did not hear the message.
> >> > HOW can it mean that when the author did not know of Australia, >>>
> >> > Antartica, the USA or South America ... to name a few?!
> >> I would reply to that if I even had an incling that you were
interested
> >> in Christian Faith and not into
> >> ' ' ' ' ' '' Scoffing all the time ' ' ' ' ' ' '
>
> > I'm with Mark on this.
>
> Are you a scoffer? ;-)
I've scoffed a whole block of chocolate during the week, and have
decided to do more exercise to work it off. :-(
> > If we follow the logic, from 30 years from now
> > it is possible that new nations will emerge. In recent times we seen
> > new nations from the old Yugoslavia, or the USSR, the birth of East
> > Timor.
>
> The problem is the meaning of the word AT THE TIME OF WRITING. One
cannot
> place a modern interpretation on an ancient word as though it means
exactly
> the same thing. The writer did not mean every country / group of people
/
> race that was going to be discovered in the FUTURE. He was talking of
the
> KNOWN WORLD during his time. He was not talking about OUR understanding
of
> "all nations".
That's what I thought, too, when I came into the thread. I took my
cue from Acts 1 regards "... Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the end of the earth" which is what the pageant in Acts
demonstrates.
I wouldn't want to read our modern use of "nations" in the NT for
ethne.
> The passage in the KJV is ...
>
> Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all
the
> world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
> Look
athttp://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=1484&version...
>
> The meaning of "nations" (Ethnos) in the NT Greek is
> 1.. a multitude (whether of men or of beasts) associated or living
> together
> 1.. a company, troop, swarm
> 2.. a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus
> 1.. the human family
> 3.. a tribe, nation, people group
> 4.. in the OT, foreign nations not wor****pping the true God, pagans,
> Gentiles
> 5.. Paul uses the term for Gentile Christians
>
> However in MODERN usage "nation" can mean:
> 1.. (n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a
nation
> of herbs.
> 2.. (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth,
distinguished
> from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a
stock.
> 3.. (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a
classification
> according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
> 4.. (n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an
independent
> government of their own.
> 5.. (n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland)
in
> which students were classified according to their nativity.
> 6.. (n.) Family; lineage.
> 7.. (n.) Family; lineage.
> 8.. (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth,
distinguished
> from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a
stock.
> 9.. (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a
classification
> according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
> 10.. (n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a
> nation of herbs.
> 11.. (n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland)
in
> which students were classified according to their nativity.
> 12.. (n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an
> independent
> fromhttp://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/nation/
Yea. Verily.
>
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