tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post8660506810935343411..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: The EpiphanyFr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-44138838721381200262013-01-06T15:42:43.168-05:002013-01-06T15:42:43.168-05:00Fr Hart said:
"A gentile- that is, anybody w...Fr Hart said:<br /><br />"A gentile- that is, anybody who is not of Jewish descent- becomes grafted into the heritage of the people of God, made a child of Abraham by faith in Jesus Christ. The truth revealed to the apostles and prophets, as taught in today’s Epistle is this: No Christian is a Gentile. When you were baptized you were taken out of your wild Gentile tree, and grafted into the cultivated tree of Israel."<br /><br />Is a Gentile anyone not of Jewish descent, or anyone not of Israeli descent? <br /><br />From Wikipedia:<br /><br />The term Gentile (from Latin gentilis, by the French "gentil", female: "gentille", meaning of or belonging to a clan or tribe) is used by English translators for the Hebrew, גוי (goy) and נכרי (nokhri) in the Hebrew Bible and the Greek word ἔθνη (éthnē) in the New Testament.<br /><br />The term gentiles is derived from Latin, used for contextual translation, and not an original Hebrew or Greek word from the Bible. The original words Goy and Ethnos refer to "peoples" or "nations". Latin and later English translators selectively used the term gentiles when the context for the base term "peoples" or "nations" referred to non-Israelite peoples or nations in English translations of the Bible.<br /><br />Susan <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com