Handbooks for Bible Classes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Handbooks for Bible Classes Observation I. - Church. - It is hardly necessary to Observe that this English word has no etymological connection with the Ecclesia of the Greek Scriptures. It is derived from a quite different Greek word, Kyriahe, signifying dominical, pertaining to the Lord, a word which occurs only twice in the Greek New Testament, namely, with reference to the Lord's Supper and the Lord's Day. The Greek Fathers began very early to use it to denote the 0s house, the edifice in which the Christian assembly met. See Suicer's Thesaurus, sub voce nvptocno'u. In this sense the term was borrowed from the Greeks by the Gothic nations, and became the German Kirche, the Dutch Kerhe, the Scottish Kirh, and the English Church. Although originally applied (as we have seen) to the place of worship, it has long been used as synonymous with the New Testament Ecclesia, and is the word by which the latter is rendered in the Teutonic versions. In several of the earliest Protestant English versions it was discarded and the word congregation was used instead (tyndale's version, I 534, and Cranmer's, I But the new word did not take. Accordingly, the Genevan version, 15 57, began to revert to the term Church, which had been nearly 300 years in use in the Wycliffite versions and this term alone was used in the Authorized Version, 1611. The Westminster revisers, while retaining the exclusive use of Church in the text, have in several places inserted congregation in the margin as an alternative rendering. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.