[B-Greek] APOLUTRWSIS
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Sat Mar 17 23:10:17 EST 2007
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From: "Mitch Larramore" <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:56 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] APOLUTRWSIS
> This is a question about the innate meaning of
> APOLUTRWSIS. Does it necessitate the idea of 'buying
> back' as in the property was owned, and now that
> property, having previously been enslaved, is now
> returned to its rightful owner? Or, can one
> APOLUTRWSIS someone who the buyer has never previously known?
1) There is no such as the innate meaning of a word, only its usage in context.
2) Get a good lexicon, and look it up. Better yet, look up the citations, if at
all possible, in context. That should help...
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Purpureus Vindex II
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