According to the Oxford dictionary - and this is a fact that has escaped the attention of the American dictionary companies - the Greek origins of the word "apostate", originally meant a "runaway slave"....
How fitting!!!
Apostate originally meant "Runaway Slave"...!!!
by ziddina 11 Replies latest jw friends
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Scully
indeed!
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GLTirebiter
Some slaves are so unfaithful and indiscreet--the nerve of them, running away from the overseers!
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talesin
how apropos~
yes, 'slaves' running from the 'overseer' to another 'circuit' so they won't be 'punished'.
I've been thinking about that language lately, and it's interesting to learn this, zid. tks.
tal
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Aussie Oz
So, seeing that the 'great crowd' are the domestics and the faithful slave is, well, a slave...
Those who leave the JWs cannot BE runaway slaves!
Only the slave can be runaway, and indeed the so called 'faithful slave' has well and truly done a runner!
Oz
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still thinking
So....does that mean that only the GB and the annointed can be apostates?...LOL brilliant!!!!!
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ziddina
Heh, heh...
My pleasure, talesin, but the credit actually goes to a lady in a Facebook group called "No Paradise for Us - wink, wink!"
It's a facebook group for ex-jehovah's witnesses...
If you're on FB, check it out - it's one of the few sites that I find worthy to waste my - er, spend time upon... Other than JWnet, of course!!
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talesin
lol!!! I pm'd you. :)
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ziddina
Hi, Talesin!!!
Checking my PM's right now...
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james_woods
Did anybody tell Teary Oberon? This may come as a shock -