Sentences with phrase «ekklesia used»
Not exact matches
However, I think he's shifting categories, because he's using the term ekklesia in two different ways.
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It is perhaps worth noting that the English word «church» was first used as a translation of «ekklesia» in the Geneva Bible of 1560.
The word ekklesia in the New Testament is also used to refer to synagogue.
The very work ekklesia which the New Testament uses for «church» comes from the Greek Old Testament where it is used to describe the whole «assembly» of Israel.