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Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:20 pm

Jax wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:16 pm I wonder does Iaosotos make sense? At least with Paul?

Why do you keep adding an -os to it? It ceases to make sense when you do that.

Ok. My bad.

I wonder does Iaosotos make sense? At least with Paul?

For me it's main value is allowing me to better understand the mindset of the people who wrote the early texts without a possibly biased interpretation getting in the way of that understanding. It's a tool that I don't really need to fully master to use to my advantage.

This is why I value your input so much.

Well I doubt that I'll ever really be very proficient at it but when I encounter it I at least try to read it as a language. At least sound out the words even if I don't know what they mean.

It'll be a life long pursuit.

Or rather Yao.

Right on.

No problem. Would Theosoteros be right though? Just checking my grasp of Greek. Well, it looks like you are going for something like θεός σωτήρ, right? (God is Savior.) So the -os ending does not belong there, does it? (In Θεόδοτος, the two elements are θεός + δοτός, noun + adjective; the -os endin...

Oh. You are going to fit right in here.

No problem. Would Theosoteros be right though? Just checking my grasp of Greek. Well, it looks like you are going for something like θεός σωτήρ, right? (God is Savior.) So the -os ending does not belong there, does it? (In Θεόδοτος, the two elements are θεός + δοτός, noun + adjective; the -os endin...