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Originally Posted by Ohio
The Lord Jesus himself selected this word when He said, "I will build My church." Did He have some Athenian assembly in mind?
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Wasn't Jesus speaking in Aramaic? So then, what did the Aramaic word mean? Aramaic wasn't Greek. It was Semitic. So we can't actually know the etymology of the word Jesus was using. We're seeing thru a Greek filter. And in those days ekklesia did not mean the called out ones. It meant any gathering.
But what the word meant that Jesus used in Aramaic we can't know. And neither could Lee.