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I'm sorry. And I misspoke when I said there was no definite article on front of αἰτοῦντί. If I had looked at the text I pasted here I might have noticed there was a definite article, but that Bible hub page offers more than one Greek text, there appears to be some textual variation, and I was...

The Greek text of Matthew 5:19 reads ὃς ἐὰν οὖν λύσῃ μίαν τῶν ἐντολῶν τούτων τῶν ἐλαχίστων καὶ διδάξῃ οὕτως τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ἐλάχιστος κληθήσεται ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν· ὃς δ’ ἂν ποιήσῃ καὶ διδάξῃ, οὗτος μέγας κληθήσεται ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν. From the commentaries I've read on the...

Hello all. I just found something I was thinking of when I posted the question on Luke 6:30. But I don't really understand it. Could someone please tell me what it means, and how it applies here (if it does)? [When 3956 (pás) modifies a word with the definite article it has...

Thank you. Does anyone know if any of the early Greek speaking fathers (like John Chrysostom, perhaps) recorded his understanding of what Christ meant by παντὶ δὲ τῷ αἰτοῦντί σε δίδου, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἴροντος τὰ σὰ μὴ ἀπαίτει? P.S. I'm getting Hart's translation on interlibrary loan, but I would...

If this David Bentley Hart isn't an Orthodox priest, did someone else named Hart, who took holy orders in an Orthodox jurisdiction, do a translation of the New Testament recently? I happen to know (from a priest) that there are three brothers named Hart, and they all became priests, and they...

Is there a new English translation of the Greek New testament by an Orthodox priest named Fr. Hart? And does anyone have a copy? I'd be interested to know how he translates James 1:7 and Luke 6:30, as I'm not sure I've ever understood either passage. Can "παντὶ δὲ τῷ αἰτοῦντί σε δίδου, καὶ...

So the words "...that I lost in the fall" aren't normally used in any entrance prayer?

Thank you. And is there something we lost in the fall that the priest asks God to restore to him before he celebrates the mass?

Hi everyone. I'm Anglican Catholic, and I recently heard a priest who came to us from the Greek Orthodox communion saying some prayers before he celebrated the Divine liturgy (on the feast of St. Catherine of Mt. Sinai last week.) It sounded like he was asking God to protect him from the...

In the Orthodox Church, is it possible to receive absolution over the telephone (if distance, insufficient car fare, or other circumstances keep you from getting to an Orthodox Priest, or keep the priest from getting to you)?

If there's no traditional Anglican Church near you, and an Anglican priest over two hours away is willing to hear your confession and grant you absolution over the phone, is it valid?

In the Orthodox Church, is it possible to receive absolution over the telephone (if distance, insufficient car fare, or other circumstances keep you from getting to an Orthodox Priest, or keep the priest from getting to you)?

So you believe that Satan designed the Hebrew and Greek language and numbering systems, and the word/number associations they make possible? Wouldn't he have knda needed G-d's help to do that?

I'm trying to understand what (if anything) G-d is telling us in Gematria. Could anyone tell me why the Hebrew "life" (בחיי), "Judah" (יהודה),"kill" (הכה), "Ahitub/my Father is goodness"...

I don't know how I read over this the first time I read Perelandra, but before he ended the book, Lewis did pen something that would place the quote in the OP in a larger context. Here it is (from page 186-187.) There seems no plan because it is all plan:there seems no center because it is...

I visited an RC Church on Palm Sunday, and the Priest asked God to bless Benedict, and help him lead the Church (or words to that effect.) He went on to pray for Pope Francis, but I assume the opening words were a slip of the tongue (because Benedict the XVI is no longer leading the RCC. If I...

As I said, it would have been helpful if you could have quoted something from Lewis himself to justify your insistence that he couldn't be saying that everything had some esoteric meaning. As it turns out, I found a chapter in "Miracles" helpful in putting his Perelandra quotes in a larger...

Thank you MKJ, I did talk to a priest, and for the benefit of anyone else who may have been troubled by my quotes from Lewis, I'd like to post some of his comments here. Dear Mike, ...Either CSL is wrong, since his mere assertion contradicts good arguments that give contrary conclusions (and...

That's true, but the significance of the similarity between his name and the word for ransom was there all along. As Lewis put it "Before his Mother had borne him, before his ancestors had been called Ransoms, before ransom had been the name for a payment that delivers, before the world...

Thank you MKJ. I don't think PV quite gets what I'm asking him. I'm asking him for some proof that the author he refereed to as "Saint Clive" measured up to his standard of Orthodoxy. He may be right when he says that Anglicanism and Old Catholicism utterly reject the sort of secret...