Scholars help with biblical homonyms

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Origen says there are homonyms in the Bible.

Examples: eyes in the body and soul.

Heart as the heart in the body, heart for what we call soul.

Hand in the soul and hand in the body.

Any kind of help will be welcomed.

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I think I’m confused? I think of homonyms being two words that sound the same but have different meanings. That would be language-specific. I’m not sure that’s what you mean. . .
 
Jim_Baur said:
Origen says there are homonyms in the Bible.

Examples: eyes in the body and soul.

Heart as the heart in the body, heart for what we call soul.

Hand in the soul and hand in the body.

Any kind of help will be welcomed.

Thanks
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Are you sure that Origen was not talking about Hebrew homonym word games?
 
He was speaking about Hebrew and Greek homonyms in the Holy Bible.

From what I am able to discern, it was not a game of any kind.

Furthermore, the passage can be located in the Song of Songs.

The text was dealing with the bride and groom in the Song of Songs.

His idea is that it clearly is not a physical relationship.

The translation that I use is the Ancient Christian Writers, Vol. 26.

It is on pages 26-27.

“…Divine Scritpures makes use of homonyms; that is to say, they use identical terms for describing different things. And they even go so far as to call the members of the outer man by the same names as the parts and dispositions of the inner man; and not only are the same terms employed, but the things themselves are compared with one another.”

I do not remember the encyclical, but the author of one of the encyclical says that Origen is the greatest in the East.

I find this to be a potentially power teaching, if not actually powerful.
 
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I really trying to explain. I find it really difficult to explain. I will try again later.

THANKS for your interest and help.
 
Apparently homonym can mean two different meanings for the same word (bear the cross vs feed the bear) as well as two different words that are spelled differently but sound the same (which are more precisely homophones). My mistake.

So the homonyms Jim is referring to would include such things as Paul’s famous discussion of the Body of Christ of which we are all members, with the foot vs eye and hiding of some members and all the rest of that metaphor?
 
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