Religious Cults & False Prophets~ Discussions and DebatesCritical Identity of BaptismFirst, there are many Jewish scholars who would disagree with Max I. Dimont, and I did not ignore what you posted. J
the letter is a late modification of Roman -i-, originally a scribal creation in continental M.L. to distinguish small -i- in cursive writing from the strokes of other letters, especially in the final positions of words. But in Eng., -y- was used for this, and -j- was introduced c.1600-1640 to take up the consonantal sound that had evolved from -i- since L.L. times. This usage first was attested in Sp., where it was in place before 1600. Eng. dictionaries continued to lump together words
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M.L. stands for Medievil Latin and L.L. stands for Late Latin. NT:2424
Ieesous, Ieesou, ho,
Jesus Matthew 1:21
1. Joshua (fully Jehoshua), the famous captain of the Israelites, Moses' successor: Acts 7:45; Hebrews 4:8
2. Jesus, son of Eliezer, one of Christ's ancestors: Luke 3:29
3. Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind: Matthew 1:21,25
4. Jesus Barabbas
5. Jesus, surnamed Justus, a Jewish Christian, an associate with Paul in preaching the gospel: Colossians 4:11
(from Thayer's Greek Lexicon, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 2000 by Biblesoft)
NT:2424
Iesous (ee-ay-sooce'); of Hebrew origin [OT]; Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites:
KJV - Jesus.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
The name Jesus dates to: Jesus
c.1175 (O.E. simply used hælend "savior"), from Gk. Iesous, attempt to render Aramaic proper name Jeshua (Heb. Yeshua) "Jah is salvation," a common Jewish personal name, the later form of Heb. Yehoshua (see Joshua). As an oath, attested from 1377. For Jesus H. Christ (1924), see I.H.S. First record of Jesus freak is from 1970. Jesu, common in M.E., is from the O.Fr. objective case.
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Your explanation to Endurance is flawed.
As to tongues being a sign, yes it is - a sign for unbelievers not believers or are you calling Paul a liar? 1 Corinthians 14:22
22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. KJV
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