for as it was Christ, the Word of God, who came to rescue man, so it was disobedience to the word of God in the beginning that brought death into the world, and all our woe.

These realities form a " composite faithfulness " and are ( i ) " perseverance in the apostolic doctrine "; ( ii ) " the will to proclaim God's word "; ( iii ) " communion in the fundamental continuity of the Church, the Body of Christ, the faithful celebration of Baptism and the Eucharist "; ( iv ) " succession in the laying on of hands, the sign of ministerial continuity ".

In the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible, the word Christ was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew mashiach ( messiah ), meaning " anointed.

Since the Apostolic Age, the use of the definite article before the word Christ and its development into a proper name signifies its identification with Jesus as the promised Jewish messiah.

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

In the New Testament e. g. Matthew 1: 1, 1: 18 ; Mark 1: 1 ; John 1: 17 ; 17: 3 ; 9: 22 ; Mark 9: 40 ; Luke 2: 11 ; 22: 2, the word Christ is preceded by Jesus.

In the Pauline Epistles the word Christ is so closely associated with Jesus that it is apparent that for the Early Christians there is no need to claim that Jesus is Christ, for that is considered widely accepted among them.

The Greek translation ( Christos ) is the source of the English word " Christ ".

Sometimes used as a symbol for Christian marriage: Two gold wedding rings interlinked with the Greek letters Chi ( letter ) | chi ( X ) and Rho ( letter ) | rho ( P )— the first two letters in the Greek word for " Christ " ( see Labarum )

The Christadelphians ( a word created from the Greek for " Brethren in Christ "; cf.

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria believes that Christ is perfect in His divinity, and He is perfect in His humanity, but His divinity and His humanity were united in one nature called " the nature of the incarnate word ", which was reiterated by Saint Cyril of Alexandria.

35 or 50-between 98 and 117 ), one of the Apostolic Fathers, mentions the Eucharist as " the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ ", and Justin Martyr speaks of it as more than a meal: " the food over which the prayer of thanksgiving, the word received from Christ, has been said ... is the flesh and blood of this Jesus who became flesh ... and the deacons carry some to those who are absent.

Col 3: 16 " Let the word of Christ dwell in you believers richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

The gospel, the word of God, faith, Christ, and Holy Spirit – these words are always on their lips ; look at their lives and they speak quite another language.

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

Also, some may argue that the word " Messiah " can be a formal title for Jesus Christ, but the meaning " anointed " can be attributed to others, such as King David, anointed to kingship, and his son Solomon.

* Barnabas appears not to realize that " Christ " and " Messiah " are synonyms, " Christ " ( khristos ) being a Greek translation of the word messiah ( mashiach ), both having the meaning of " anointed ".

" Roe noted that " of Christ he never utters any word unreverently.

But at the same time he adopted the Stoic doctrine of the " seminal word ," and so philosophy was to him an operation of the Word — in fact, through his identification of the Word with Christ, it was brought into immediate connection with him.

" And this food is called among us Εὐχαριστία Eucharist ... For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these ; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh .”

The word Nepōhualtzintzin comes from the Nahuatl and it is formed by the roots ; Ne-personal -; pōhual or pōhualli-the account -; and tzintzin-small similar elements.

Its latest meaning is more or less similar to the Sanskrit word kalpa and Hebrew word olam.

Commonly, substitutions involve picking another ( actual ) word starting with the same sound ( e. g. clocktower-colander ), picking another semantically related to the first ( e. g. letter-scroll ), or picking one phonetically similar to the intended one ( e. g. lane-late ).

The word " apocalypse " is also used for other works of a similar nature in the literary genre of apocalyptic literature.

This thesis is supported by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, explaining that the Turko-Mongol name Timur underwent a similar evolution, from the Sanskrit word cimara (" iron ") via a modified version * čimr to the final Turkicized version timür, with-ür replacing-r due to the Turkish vowel harmony ( hence babr → babür ).

Thackston argues that the name cannot be taken from babr and instead must be derived from a word that has evolved out of the Indo-European word for beaver, pointing to the fact that the name is pronounced bāh-bor in both Persian and Turkic, similar to the Russian word for beaver ( бобр – bobr ).

The word use of Basic English is similar to full English, but the rules are much simpler, and there are fewer exceptions.

The Bengals ' team colors were orange, black, and white, and their helmets were a similar shade of orange, with the only variations being the word " Bengals " in block letters on either side of the helmet and no stripe on the helmet.

The most common is the circumflex ( which it calls to bach, meaning " little roof ", or acen grom " crooked accent ", or hirnod " long sign ") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel.

In the Rigveda, the word appears as an n-stem,, with a range of meanings encompassing " something established or firm " ( in the literal sense of prods or poles ), figuratively " sustainer, supporter " ( of deities ), and semantically similar to the Greek ethos (" fixed decree, statute, law ").

In German language-speaking countries, the word Doktor refers to a research doctorate awardee in formal language ( similar to a PhD ), and is distinct from Arzt, a medical practitioner.

Presque vu is similar to, but distinct from, the phenomenon called tip of the tongue, a situation when someone cannot recall a familiar word or name, but with effort one eventually recalls the elusive memory.

At first, consideration was given to simply rebranding all stations as Enco, but that was shelved when it was learned that the word " Enco " is similar in pronunciation to a Japanese term for " stalled car.

Note that the term " selflessness " is similar in literal meaning ( ego is the Greek word for " I ") but differs in nuance and usage.

The word fascismo also relates to political organizations in Italy known as fasci, groups similar to guilds or syndicates.

The word motherland in modern English carries similar associations with the Soviet Union.

Mailer described a factoid as " facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper ", and created the word by combining the word fact and the ending-oid to mean " similar but not the same ".

The Finnish and Estonian languages are both part of the non-Indo-European Uralic languages ; they share a similar grammar as well as several individual words, though sometimes as false friends: e. g. the Finnish word for ' south ', etelä is close to the Estonian word edel, but the latter means south-west.

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

Some researchers such as Brengelman ( 1970 ), have suggested that, in addition to this marking of word origin, these spellings indicate a more formal level of style or register in a given text, although Rollins ( 2004 ) finds this point to be exaggerated as there would be many exceptions where a word with one of these spellings, such as ⟨ ph ⟩ for ( like telephone ), could occur in an informal text.

As both hurd and hird are just alternate spellings for the English word herd, the full name GNU Hurd is also a play on the words herd of gnus, reflecting how the kernel works.

The word began various spellings as West Coast slang around 1912, the meaning of which varied but did not refer to music.

The present word has alternate spellings ( kludge and kluge ) and pronunciations ( and, rhyming with fudge and stooge respectively ), and several proposed etymologies.

For example, leet spellings of the word leet include 1337 and l33t ; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t.

The different spellings have arisen because the Tamil letter த can be pronounced as both't ' and'd ' depending on its place in a word.

The word " silver " appears in Anglo-Saxon in various spellings such as seolfor and siolfor.

" Womyn " is one of a number of alternative spellings of the word " women " used by some feminist writers .< ref > D.

These sounds each have two possible spellings at the end of a word, ck and k for, dge and ge for, and tch and ch for.

Encyclopedia references, encyclopedias and trade publications also use an array of spellings for this process with the two most often encountered English spellings as, screenprinting spelled as a single undivided word, and the more popular two word title of screen printing without hyphenation.

In Middle English, it appeared with many spellings, such as, and, which did not always reflect the actual pronunciation of the word.

In the shallow Spanish orthography ; most words are spelled the way they sound, that is, word spellings are almost always regular.

As the word was used by people speaking Latin or Latin-based languages it gained the " d " and endured a series of different endings and spellings leading to the English spelling " admyrall " in the 14th century and to " admiral " by the 16th century.

* Abbreviations, use of a foreign language, variant spellings, or other unusual word tricks are indicated in the clue.

The main differences between the two editions ( for either version of the book ) are those of American English vs. British English spellings, though The Deeper Meaning of Liff contains different definitions for both the word " Glossop " and the titular word " Liff ".

By the end of the 12th century the word Ruthenia had come into use ( among the alternative spellings Ruscia and Russia ) in Latin papal documents to denote the lands formerly dominated by Kiev.

Though the word " voivodeship " ( other spellings are " voievodship " and " voivodship ") appears in English dictionaries such as the OED and Webster's, it is not in common general usage, and voivodeships in Poland and elsewhere are frequently referred to as " provinces ".