>>15725903>Gentile was a bastardization of language. It actually came from the gentry class: land-owning, nobles. Everyone knows this. It’s not an ancient worduh huh
Jews change language 101. Thier greatest subversion.
Gentile/Gentiles does not mean non Jew.
So let's go with this whole neither Judean or Gentile canard. What does Gentile mean ? Gentile is a Latin word.
The words Gens and Gentiles have a special meaning in the system of the Roman law and in the Roman constitution.
This is the Official Roman definition of the Englsih word Gentile "Gentilis in Latin" (coined by Scaevola) by Sextus Pompeius Festus (The OFFICIAL Grammarrian of the Roman Empire) in his 20 volume work "De significatu verborum" (“On the Meaning of Words”) 23 AD
"That is called Gens Aelia which is composed (conficitur) of many familiae.
Gentilis is both one who is of the same stock (genus), and one who is called by the same name (simili nomine),
As Cincius says, those are my Gentiles who are called by my name."
--Sextus Pompeius Festus (The OFFICIAL Grammarrian of the Roman Empire) - "On the Meaning of Words" - 23 AD
SAME family. SAME race.
Don't believe me ? Look up the ethomology of the word yourself
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gentilisThat's what Gentile means. It doesn't mean non-jew, or another race, or another family, or another people.
The GREEK word ACTUALLY used in the NT is ἔθνος - Ethnos which means (The SAME) nation or race.
ἔθνος
ethnos
eth'-nos
a race (as of the same habit), that is, a tribe, nation
A person of the same race AND tribe
γένος
genos
ghen'-os
From G1096; “kin”, Race
kin
noun (used with a plural verb)
1) a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk.
2) family relationship or kinship.
3) a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a people, clan, tribe, or family.
4) a relative
Adjective
1) Of the same family
In fact, in my 1966 Official Lectionary Bible of the Catholic Church it says race and not Gentile..
see the thread ?
