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Right there in our Lord's prayer is some financial advice: > And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. In the original Greek of Matthew
by 317070 2y ago
Right there in our Lord's prayer is some financial advice:
> And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
In the original Greek of Matthew's prayer, the word is "ophelilema", as in financial debt. There are other words for more metaphorical debts like when breaking rules, which were notably not used.
- HideousKojima 2y ago>original Greek Akhshually Jesus would have been speaking Aramaic. So even if Matthew wrote his Gospel in Greek it may not necessarily be the most accurate translation of what Jesus actually said. /end pedantry In any case, the "gospel of prosperity" types in Christianity are second only to the "secretly a sex pest" types in regards to how obnoxious they are and how much of a black eye they give to Christianity's reputation.
- 317070 2y ago> Akhshually Jesus would have been speaking Aramaic. Actually, like most people in the world, and especially people in "border lands", if he existed, he probably will have been multilingual. Aramaic for sure, but he might also have spoken some Hebrew, Greek and maybe even Latin.