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  • From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:35:39 -0500

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:26:46 -0600 "John Brand" <jbrand AT gvsd.mb.ca>
writes:
> George wrote:
> > I fail to see how you find any connection between Maitreya and
> > Mashiach either as cognate words or as having the same semantic
> > domain. Perhaps you could enlighten me?
>
> Hi, George. I go into more detail on the connection in the first
> post
> that I sent to the list this morning. But I'll pull out part of that
>
> discussion to answer your question:
>
> There is a closer relationship between the Aramaic 'meshia' and the
>
> Aryan Maitreya. And this is where there is overlap between Isaiah's
>
> 'anointed' and the Zoroastrian Maitreya. Maitreya means 'friendly,
> loving' and is derived from maitri which is the Sanskrit form of
> Mithras.
>
> Semantics is all about 'pointing to' as a means of communicating
> concepts. Maitreya points to the same concept as Mashiach: An
> anointed manifestation of Atman or the life principle.
>
> Hope this helps..
>
> John Brand
> _______________________________________________

Not at all. I see no connection.

george
gfsomsel
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