11-10-2012, 10:35 PM
Shlama,
I thought it was curious that the Greek has EPHPHATHA instead of ETHPATHAKH for "Be thou opened!" The Greeks could have used EPSILON-THETA-PI-ALPHA-THETA-ALPHA-CHI to get these same sounds that are in the Aramaic word but instead used EPSILON-PHI-PHI-ALPHA-THETA-ALPHA...kinda weird!!! <!-- s
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I thought it was curious that the Greek has EPHPHATHA instead of ETHPATHAKH for "Be thou opened!" The Greeks could have used EPSILON-THETA-PI-ALPHA-THETA-ALPHA-CHI to get these same sounds that are in the Aramaic word but instead used EPSILON-PHI-PHI-ALPHA-THETA-ALPHA...kinda weird!!! <!-- s
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