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I mentioned in another post that the priest giving the homily said that “moved with pity” used to be “moved with anger” in this passage from the bible. He said it was changed because we have a hard time accepting an angry Christ in this type of circumstance. Does anyone have any idea where this priest got this information? I would really like to know.
 
Satan.

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But seriously, the Greek clearly says compassion. I have no idea what he is talking about
 
You really scared me there for a minute. He referenced something during the Homily as to where he got his info but I couldn’t understand what he was saying. That is why I am asking.
 
Strong’s concordance:
1) to be moved as to one’s bowels, hence to be moved with compassion, have compassion (for the bowels were thought to be the seat of love and pity)

It means a visceral wrenching of the gut - it does not mean anger, though it is much stronger than simply “moved”.

The link has a list of all the times in the Bible the particular word is used - if you read them, you’ll see that “anger” is not a supportable definition of the Greek word ‘splagchnizomai’; it is, however, the correct definition of ‘orgistheis’, which is used in some textual variants (though none which are endorsed by the Church, as far as I know).

I’m sure your pastor meant well, but his Greek needs a little bit of brushing-up - that, or he should warn people that he’s exegeting in accordance with a minor textual variant.

God Bless,
RyanL
 
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Holland:
You really scared me there for a minute. He referenced something during the Homily as to where he got his info but I couldn’t understand what he was saying. That is why I am asking.
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Why not ask your priest?
 
Asking this particular priest is not an option for me. Am I doing an end run around him…yes. That is why I asked the question here.
 
If you’re interested in doing a little “homework,” here’s an article that offers a good summary of the scholarly opinion on the passage you mentioned:

rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol05/Ehrman2000a.html

You might want to make a copy and study it at your leisure. This is certainly much more than acknowledging what the Greek “clearly” (Post #2) says, since this is the very issue under debate.

God bless.
 
Jesus looked around at the Pharisees in the synagogue with anger, because of their hardness of heart regarding the healing of the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath.
This is the only instance in which Jesus is described as being angry.
Your priest is confusing passages.
 
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