Sentences with phrase «greek speaking world»

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The green theme emerging from Constantinople and from the Greek - speaking Orthodox world has, to say the least, been interesting.

The gospel was first of all an oral gospel and was essentially an eschatological proclamation about the nature of the end of the world, spoken in Aramaic and later written in Greek.

He never thought, after the Greek fashion, of soul as pure being, capable of disembodiment, but spoke, as his Jewish contemporaries did, of future life in terms of bodily resurrection, and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways of conceiving the raised body and its uses in the next world.

Carey speaks of going «into all the world to preach the gospel to every creature» (i.e., to every human being), rather than «to the whole creation» as intended by the Greek.

On a more mundane level, we know that Jesus spoke Aramaic (the spoken dialect of biblical Hebrew), since fragments of his speech are embedded in the Greek Gospels (see Mark 5:41; 15:34), while St. Paul proclaimed that same evangel to the world in Greek, though he seems to have been equally at home in Hebrew.

A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half - metaphoric personifications of those great spheres of abstract law and order into which the natural world falls apart — the sky — sphere, the ocean - sphere, the earth - sphere, and the like; just as even now we may speak of the smile of the morning, the kiss of the breeze, or the bite of the cold, without really meaning that these phenomena of nature actually wear a human face.

A wide - ranging effort at translating Greek texts was made by the Arabic - speaking world in the ninth century.

And naturally a much greater Greek influence is to be assumed in Galilee, where the Jewish people bordered, so to speak, on the Hellenistic world, than in Judea.

Moreover, the great Diaspora, and the existence of Greek - speaking Jewries in the cities of the outside world, could not remain without effect upon the homeland.

Greek was the lingua franca of the world of Jesus» day, and was probably not spoken too well by the relatively poorly educated, early followers of Jesus.

Unlike the Greek brothers who want the world on a platter, the soft - spoken ruler is easy to empathize with, even though he too suffers from making decisions based on pride, revenge, and the miscalculated opinions of his superstitious spiritual advisers.

As the World Travel Awards heads to Athens for the Europe Gala Ceremony 2014, Breaking Travel News reporter Phil Blizzard here speaks with Niki Fotiou, from host Divani Collection, about hosting the event, what scan be expected and the impact on the Greek tourism industry.