From: Bill Rodgers (billfred@erols.com)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2000 - 16:27:51 EST
> > Also, is 'seven spirits' an allusion to the Holy Spirit or is it
> >reference to angels or other created beings? Please give support for your
> >choice.
>
> This I'll leave to the apocalyptic buffs.
>
> -In apocalyptic literature seven is usually a perfect number. Thus the perfect
> spirit would be the Holy Spirit. At least that is my best guess.
Bill
> -
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics/Washington University
> One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
> Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
> cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
>
> ---
> B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek
> You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: billfred@erols.com
> To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-329W@franklin.oit.unc.edu
> To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=UTF-8;
name="billfred.vcf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: Card for Bill Rodgers
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="billfred.vcf"
Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:billfred.vcf 4 (TEXT/TBB6) (0003D5E4)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:40:57 EDT