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Colin Milton

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March 29, 2025 - 11:11 am

The Sign of the Cross is created from Matthew 28:18-19. However the words are not a Sign, or sign-language. The Sign of the Cross is not words. It is a movement of the hand and object held by the hand. It is not words. The Sign of the Cross has not any words to translate or paraphrase.

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March 29, 2025 - 11:47 am

“English is the Vulgar tongue of Latin. The Catholic Church prohibited it being spoken as the language of the church”
What’s referred to by “it”? (Latin? English?)

Below, is there a:
translation?
paraphrase?

Mark 5:41 (Greek Orthodox Church 1904)
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καὶ κρατήσας τῆς χειρὸς τοῦ παιδίου λέγει αὐτῇ·
Ταλιθά, κοῦμι, ὅ ἐστι μεθερμηνευόμενον, Τὸ κοράσιον, σοὶ λέγω ἔγειρε.

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DavidFord

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March 29, 2025 - 7:51 pm

To what exactly does “the second death” refer?

(NABRE)
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Revelation 2:11
“‘“Whoever has ears ought to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
The victor shall not be harmed by the second death.”’

Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection.
The second death has no power over these;
they will be priests of God and of Christ,
and they will reign with him for [the] thousand years.

Revelation 20:14
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the pool of fire.
(This pool of fire is the second death.)

Revelation 21:8
But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved,
murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers,
idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort,
their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur,
which is the second death.”

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Colin Milton

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March 29, 2025 - 9:20 pm

Aramaic and Greek, Latin can be translations of eachother because those languages existed during the 1st century. English did not, modern Hebrew did not.

I see what must be a really more than most illusions of a ancient greek word.

A μι verb. So you have a first person pronoun μι attached as a prefix onto the verb all as one word in the Active voice.

No, it’s not a greek word. One Aramaic word is traslated as three greek words
σοι (dative case: 2nd person pronoun)
to you
λεγω (verb with 1st person pronoun in active voice, present tense)
I say
εγειρε (verb, vocative case ending of ε, which is also the Imperative mood 2nd person present tense active voice)
you wake up, (Talitha)

English does not have an equivalent word. It must be paraphrased as an expression of words to include the pronoun and voice. One Aramaic word has then become three greek words, and six or more English words.
🤷‍♂️

I call it a paraphrase, not a genuine translation.

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Colin Milton

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March 29, 2025 - 9:50 pm

@DavidFord

I have no idea. I’m probably the only person alive within 500 miles of my house who ever tried to study ancient Greek. Not even the local Catholic priest.

Ask Robert or Fisher of Purple Fish,

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DavidFord

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March 29, 2025 - 10:01 pm

“One Aramaic word has then become three greek words”
Is “κοῦμι”/kumi Greek?

Mark 5:41
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GRK: αὐτῇ ταλιθα κούμ ὅ ἐστιν
NAS: to her, Talitha kum! (which
KJV: unto her, Talitha cumi; which is,
INT: to her Talitha cumi which is

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March 29, 2025 - 10:10 pm

In your view, did the Greek for Luke 7:47 correctly render what Jesus said in Aramaic?

Luke 7:47
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(Berean Literal)
Therefore I say to you this:
Her many sins have been forgiven,
for she loved much;
but to whom little is forgiven,
he loves little.”
(Young’s Literal)
therefore I say to thee,
her many sins have been forgiven,
because she did love much;
but to whom little is forgiven,
little he doth love.’

Luke 7:47 (Greek Orthodox Church 1904)
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οὗ χάριν λέγω σοι,
ἀφέωνται αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῆς αἱ πολλαί,
ὅτι ἠγάπησε πολύ·
ᾧ δὲ ὀλίγον ἀφίεται,
ὀλίγον ἀγαπᾷ.

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Colin Milton

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March 30, 2025 - 6:32 am

The verse agrees with a synopsis that John the Baptist and Jesus were teaching ways of forgiveness that were in disagreement with the traditional animal sacrifice rituals of the Temple Priesthoods.

The verb αφιημι is perhaps a metaphorical description of the scapegoat and whatever happened to it afterwards. It fell off the cliff. 🤷‍♂️

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DavidFord

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March 30, 2025 - 12:59 pm

“The verse agrees with a synopsis that John the Baptist and Jesus were teaching ways of forgiveness”
Where if anywhere do you see sentiments along these lines?:

“her many sins have been forgiven,
because she did love much”

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Colin Milton

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March 30, 2025 - 2:01 pm

She neither had repented, nor offered a sacrifice at the Second Temple, yet Jesus says her sins were forgiven because she had loved much (more than). She had loved more than she had sinned.

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DavidFord

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March 30, 2025 - 3:10 pm

“She neither had repented”
I bet she “had repented.”

Luke 7 (NIV)
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36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him,
he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.
37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life
learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house,
so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.
38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping,
she began to wet his feet with her tears.
Then she wiped them with her hair,
kissed them
and poured perfume on them.

“nor offered a sacrifice at the Second Temple, yet Jesus says her sins were forgiven because she had loved much (more than). She had loved more than she had sinned”
Regarding the scenario posed below, in your view did Simon answer correctly?

Luke 7 (Berean Literal)
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41 “There were two debtors to a certain creditor.
The one owed five hundred denarii,
and the other fifty.
42 They having nothing to pay, he forgave both.
Therefore which of them will love him more?”
43 Simon answering, said,
“I take it that he to whom he forgave the most.”
And He said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

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Colin Milton

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March 30, 2025 - 5:55 pm

There’s not enough time elapsed in the story to claim repentance. It says nothing of the future actions of the woman. Repentance was not why she was forgiven nor had salvation.

Sin was the past actions. The present action in Luke 7 was faith and love. Faith causeth salvation and love causeth forgiveness. Luke 7:50.

Repentance is the future actions of obedience to law. If people are not forgiven they will not love.

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Colin Milton

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March 30, 2025 - 6:04 pm

Example: heroin addicts repent often. A week later when they’re in the hell of schizophrenic hallucinations, horrendous body aches and explosive diarrhea and dehydration they get high again to cure themselves from the sickness. The repentance was not successful during that attempt.

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March 30, 2025 - 6:09 pm

Is it possible that the author of Revelation got the concept of a “second death” from a Targum?

Targum Isaiah
_The Chaldee Paraphrase on the Prophet Isaiah [by Jonathan b. Uzziel]_ tr. by C.W.H. Pauli (1871), 226pp.
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Is 22:14
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14 The prophet said,
with mine ears I was hearing when
this was decreed from before the Lord of hosts,
_namely_, that this your iniquity shall not be forgiven you
till you die the second death,
said the Lord, the God, _the God_ of hosts.

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Thus we find in the Jerusalem Targum, Deut. xxxiii. 6,
“Let Reuben live in this world, and not die, … , the second death,
with which the wicked die in the world to come.”
The same phrase we find in the Targum on Isaiah lxv. 6, 15 ;
Jeremiah li. 39, 57; and in Philo. De Proemus and Poenis, p. 921.

Is 65:6
Page n232
6 Behold, it is written before me:
I will not give unto them prolongation in this life;
but I will recompense unto them the wages for their sins,
and deliver their bodies to the second death.

Is 65:15
Page n234
15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen :
for the Lord God shall slay you with the second death,
and call His righteous servants by another name :

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_The Targum of Jeremiah_ (The Aramaic Bible, Volume 12) (1987), 206pp.

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Jer 51:39
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… 39. Bring distress upon them,
and they shall be like drunken men,
so that they shall not be strong,
and they shall die the second death,
and shall not live for the world to come,
says the Lord.

Jer 51:57, on 188-189:
57. And I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,
her governors and her tyrants and her mighty men;
and they shall die the second death
and not live for the world to come.”
says the King;
the Lord of Hosts is his Name.

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DavidFord

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March 30, 2025 - 6:23 pm

“If people are not forgiven they will not love”
Did she love because she was forgiven?
Was she forgiven because she loved?

IOW, with which if any of these statements do you agree?:
She loved because she was forgiven.
She was forgiven because she loved.

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Colin Milton

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March 30, 2025 - 9:58 pm

Both as cause-effect relationship. Love and Forgiveness.

The second death is being in a state of reprobation after being “saved”. The first death was sinful existence, being dead to sin before being “saved”, which is the Resurrection. (Preterist)

Reprobates are extremely rare. Worst of the worst. Someone like a Catholic Priest who became a violent apostate and a serial killer and burned down the church and had sex with dead farm animals he worshiped as gods. Never heard of such of thing really. Maybe a Alister Crowely is an example of a Reprobate. Paul is the first source for the hypothetical second death and reprobate. Paul did not become a Reprobate.

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Colin Milton

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March 31, 2025 - 1:43 pm

Matthew 24:30

νεφελη: metaphorical “clouds of death”
Little Liddell ISBN 1-84356-026-7

clouds (of death) of heaven.

If the passages had implied Israelite people it would have used the phrase “Sons of Israel:Jacob” and not Son of Man.

Matthew 24:34, that was the future Jewish Roman Wars and the resurrection from death in spirit.

Matthew 24:31 is the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles forming the Church.
Matthew 26:2, Jesus as a human being of flesh is also the Son of Man, but afterwards the Church itself becomes the return of Christ while the man Jesus after death and resurrection was in Spirit as the Son God. Romans 1:4, greek genetive υιου θεου.

clouds of death, from heaven.

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Colin Milton

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March 31, 2025 - 3:57 pm

makes no sense. Jesus as a descendent of David in flesh being the Son of God. 🤷‍♂️

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March 31, 2025 - 5:05 pm

makes no sense. Jesus as a descendent [sic] of David in flesh being the Son of God.

It makes no sense to you because you’re not a first century Hellenized Jewish apocalypticist.

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March 31, 2025 - 7:10 pm

was King David historically worshiped as being YHWH but then a coverup and rewriting of the books occurred centuries afterwards?

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