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Originally Posted by aron
First off, the perils of being a teacher in a subject you don't know. On the forum, I learned that 'ekklesia' meant 'assembly', or 'meeting', not 'church'. Lee never told me that. He translated 'ekklesia' one way or another depending on if he could call it 'church' or not. So "one church per city" is based on a false premise, not knowing what the Greek actually meant.
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On this matter I think you have no case because "called out assembly" is Lee's preferred definition for the word ekklesia, not church. If you had read Lee's books you would have understood well that ekklesia means assembly. In a number of his books Lee defines ekklesia as the assembly or congregation. Lee writes it is best to translate ekklesia as assembly, not church. He also cites Darby who renders ekklesia as "assembly".