From: Steve Long (steve@allegrographics.com)
Date: Thu Jul 15 1999 - 10:26:17 EDT
>
>Actually you're both right. The phrase itself is very Greek and does
>indeed appear
>in Matthew 17:15. It is taken up into the Latin liturgy as early as can
>be traced
>and was taken over wholesale as the West adopted Latin as its official
>language as
>were many other Greek terms and phrases taken into Christian Latin. So from a
>certain perspective it is indeed "Latin" since most folks who know the
>Latin mass
>or hours and are familiar with the phrase know it only from Latin, not
>Greek. But
>in origin it is indeed a Graecism.
>
>Hope that helps a mite or two,
>
It even predates Matthew it is found in the Psalms 3 times (LXX 40:5,
40:11, 122:3) (KJV 41:4, 41:10, 123:3) and in Isaiah once (LXX 33:2). I
guess you could say its a Hebrew Loan Idea!
;-)
Steve
--Christian is a noun that doesn't need an adjective.--
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