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Phil Vaz wrote: (C) The slight distinction in meaning for the Greek words for Rock (petros, petra) was largely confined to poetry before the time of Jesus and therefore has no special importance;
(forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=8700&highlight=greek+translation+rock)
And Karl Keating in one of his articles on this site wrote that the differentiation between petra=rock and petros=rock existed in Attic Greek but not in Koine Greek.
Well, I wrote that on a Protestant site and they wanted a citation for it and I have not been able to find one. If anyone could give me one for that that an anti-Catholic Protestant would accept (I guess it might take Martin Luther or someone like that…) I would appreciate it!
PS If anyone has right off the the bat something about this: John Henry wrote: Some of the Church Fathers make reference to Matthew’s gospel having been originally written in aramaic, subsequently translated into greek. I am also interested in reading about that but have no clue as to where to start looking.
Thanks very much!
(forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=8700&highlight=greek+translation+rock)
And Karl Keating in one of his articles on this site wrote that the differentiation between petra=rock and petros=rock existed in Attic Greek but not in Koine Greek.
Well, I wrote that on a Protestant site and they wanted a citation for it and I have not been able to find one. If anyone could give me one for that that an anti-Catholic Protestant would accept (I guess it might take Martin Luther or someone like that…) I would appreciate it!
PS If anyone has right off the the bat something about this: John Henry wrote: Some of the Church Fathers make reference to Matthew’s gospel having been originally written in aramaic, subsequently translated into greek. I am also interested in reading about that but have no clue as to where to start looking.
Thanks very much!