The ancient Greek word "γνῶσις" ≈ "inquiry, knowledge" and is related to the English word "knowledge" where the "gn" and "kn" are linguistically related. By the end of the first century, this Greek word became associated with those who claimed a "special knowledge" of Jesus, God, etc.

• Greek: gno-sis
• English: know

The Latin word "dilectio" ≈ "love" and is the source of the Latin word "delicatus" ≈ "alluring, charming" as in the English word "delicacy".

To "know" is not to be "ignorant".

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In this verse, the KJV (King James Version) translates what would appear to be "ignorant" but, instead, is "pureness". The Greek word means chaste and comes from another Greek word for "holy" or "sanctified".

• The ancient Greek word "ἁγνός" ≈ "chaste, pure".
• The ancient Greek word "ἄγνωστος" ≈ "unknown, ignorant".

Could this meaning have anything to do with "ignorant" as in "not knowing" as in a "blind faith"?

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The negation of the word for "knowledge" just happens to be similar to the word for "chaste". The distinction between hard and soft breathing at the start of a word disappeared in the first century BC.

• The ancient Greek word "ἁγνός" ≈ "chaste, pure".
• The modern Greek word "αγνός" (a-GNOS) ≈ "pure, chaste, innocent".
• The ancient Greek word "ἄγνωστος" ≈ "unknown, ignorant".

In modern Greek, the omicron (short, small) and omega (long, big) sound the same. In ancient Greek, they would have somewhat similar but yet different sounds. It makes one wonder about puns in the ancient Greek language involving these two words.

Candidates for such puns would be words used only once by Paul that could have a double meaning.

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A problem in Greek philosophy was that of "knowing" and attaining "knowledge". From Plato, here is a concise and brief formulation of Meno's Paradox.

• If you know what you are looking for, there is no need to ask. Asking is unnecessary.
• If you do not know what you are looking for, there is no way to ask. Asking is impossible.

The underlying assumption is that either you know what you are looking for or you do not know what you are looking for. There is a bit of "sophistic" deception going on here, but it can be difficult to identify.

Thomas: "How do we know the way when we do not where you are going.".

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Taking the last letter of the three words as an acrostic, and making a new Hebrew word, one gets the Hebrew word "אמת" which means "truth".
If the first letter of the Hebrew word for truth is removed, the resulting word is "dead" (noun) or "dying" or "diseased" (adjective).

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The hymn "Crown Him with many crowns" is a favorite hymn of dentists.

I need to tell you this due to "tooth in advertising" laws.

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Jesus is the "way", "truth" and "life".
In Latin, these three words start with "v": "via", "veritas" and "vita". The Greek and Hebrew words for "truth" have to do with "reality" and not "logic" or "opinion". Thus, Jesus is the "way" (opinion as in glory), the "truth" (reality as in science) and the "life" (logic as in information).

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Open Source software saying: Free as in speech, not as in beer.

Software is not "free". Even if the "bits" cost nothing, there is a cost to leaning and using and supporting the software.

• Speech as in information or bits. Once created, it can, as information, be copied and/or distributed at almost no cost, if one is allowed to do so.
• Beer as in atoms (which cost something). Each can of beer has a cost to create and distribute.

The idea of "it" from "bit" is from John Archibald Wheeler.

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John Archibald Wheeler (American theoretical physicist) held that information is fundamental to physics and reality with his "it from bit" ideas.

• physics : its (atoms, physical reality)
• information: bits (abstract reality)

Otherwise put, every it - every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself - derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely - even if in some contexts indirectly - from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes-or-no questions, binary choices, bits. John Archibald Wheeler (American theoretical physicist)

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The ancient Greek word "δόμα" ≈ "gift, present, payment" but is listed in Wikipedia as rare. The extensive large two volume Cambridge Greek Lexicon has the ancient Greek word "δόμος" ≈ "house". The same lexicon has the ancient Greek word "δόμα" ≈ "gift" but as only used in the GNT (Greek New Testament). It is unclear why this word had that meaning only in the GNT and LXX (Septuagint). The LXX appears to follow the Hebrew.

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The Trojan horse was another "gift" that is the source of the saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts".
The modern Greek word "Δούρειος ίππος" (THU-ree-os EEP-pos) ≈ "Trojan horse" and is in Greek, literally, "gift horse" with no mention of "Trojan".

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In English, a "gift" is considered something good and not bad.

• The ancient Greek word "δωρεά" ≈ "gift".
• The modern Greek word "δωρεά" (tho-reh-A) ≈ "donation, gift".
• The ancient Greek word "θεός" ≈ "god, God" as in "theology".

The name "Dorothy" literally means "gift" of "God" from the Latin word "Dorothea" ≈ "Dorothy" from the ancient Greek word "Δωροθέα" ≈ "Dorothy".

The "unspeakable" in the Greek appears to be related to the source of the English word "anecdote" which was a Byzantine publishing of court gossip that was otherwise not proper to publish or speak about.

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One is not to charge for something that one has received for "free" as a "gift". The KJV translates as "received" the Greek word for "take". Salvation is not "received" or "acquired" until it is first "taken" or "requested". The Latin word "gratiis" ≈ "without recompense" as in the English word "gratuity".

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The powers they are provided have special meanings.

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What does it mean to be "free"? This statement appears to setup the "render to Caesar" trick when the religious establishment is "ready to try anything" and translated as "crafty". There may be a play on words with "free" here.

Paraphrase: of the other three [Satanic trinity]. ... Then the sons (Jesus, disciples, believers) are free (of bondage of sin) [that is, they are wheat harvest]

Note that the "temple tax" is for the "children" on "sons" and not for the "others".

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The previous verse assumes one "believes" and has "knowledge" of Jesus and his teachings. Let us reverse the logic.

• As stated: You shall know the truth and the truth shall free you.
• Reversed If you do not know the truth, you shall remain in bondage.

This is exactly the point brought out in the next verse.

If sinners were not allowed in church, there would be no one allowed in church.

The Greek here for "all" is plural which means there may be exceptions. Who might be an exception?
The ancient Greek word "ἁμαρτία" ≈ "error, mistake, fault, sin" as in, literally, "not a witness". The Greek for "glory" is that of "opinion". Anything that is "not a witness" for God "falls short" or "lags behind" of God's "opinion" or "expectation".

In logical reasoning, one should not universally quantify something without specifying the domain to which it applies and how it applies. The "for all" would appear to refer to "men" who are not "God" (as in "Jesus").

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Do we need to come up to the "glory" of God? Perhaps a pastor could help us with that seemingly unattainable quest.

• "υστερούντα" ≈ "lag behind, be late".
• "δόξα" ≈ "opinion, expectation".

It appears we do not have to reach the level of God. God has an expectation/opinion of where we should be and we are lagging behind that expectation/opinion. This appears to be in line with Eastern Orthodox thought.

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• "ἐλεύθερος" ≈ "free" as in "freedom".
• "ἄλευρον " ≈ "ground grain".
• "θερίζω" ≈ "reap" as in the "harvest".

Play on words: You shall know the reality (Jesus) and that reality (Jesus) will (make) wheat/flour harvest (of) you.