Do you mean "popular usage" of present-day preachers? Certainly in the NT
LOGOS is used of spoken proclamation as well as in that distinctive
theological sense in John's prologue; hRHMA often seems to be used of
commandments or moral dicta. Certainly etymologically hRHMA is an
object-noun of that verb-root for speaking, hRH-, but as we all know, the
etymology is rarely a clear indication of what the word means or how it
functions at a particular time period and in a particular context.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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