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Date Posted: 20:56:21 10/28/04 Thu
Author: anonymous
Subject: Re: More linguistic fantasy: John1
In reply to: Mike K. 's message, "More linguistic fantasy: John1" on 14:03:14 10/28/04 Thu

>But Jesus
>was in him the hope of God. Simon means "sand" but
>Cephas "a rock."
>
>According to any Names dictionary I could find,
>"Simon" means "He that listens/obeys" - not "sand". A
>linguistical masterpiece to prove the point, yet
>totally absurd, and simply false.

I think you guys are a bit over-zealous here...Simon does mean "sand" in Aramaic. I also find it quite interesting that you banned the only UBF person willing to have any kind of discussion...too bad we can't here what BK would say to this one...

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