Wag

From Kristos Vocabulary Booster

Verb

1. To swing from side to side
   esp. of an animal's tail
   See also wiggle
2. (British slang) To pretend to be ill in order to shirk a responsibility, usually school lessons.
   Corruption of the latin aeger, meaning ill.
   See also skivitis

Adjective

1. Pretending to be ill, as in 2 above. Also 'wagging it large'

Noun

1. Witty person

basicallyblues wrote:

> Bob Felts wrote (concerning Acts 28:6)
>
> >Because that isn't how Greek nouns work. When the Greek uses the
> >article, it means identity. "o nomos" is "the Law". When the Greek
> >omits the article, it means quality of character. So "nomos", by
> >itself, means "any law" or "a law" or "law method".
>
> But Acts 28:4 is syntactically a parallel to John 1:1:

No, it isn't.

Acts 28:4 doesn't have the "ton theon kai theos ..." construction.

[...]

>
> >"In the beginning (parallel to Gen 1:1, before anything was created),
> >the Word was continuously a god".
>
> but what "beginning" are we talking about here? Genesis 1:1 refers to
> the creation of the "heavens and the earth" but angels were created
> before Gen. 1:1 hence the poetic verse at Job 38:7 where "all the sons
> of God began shouting in applause?"

A dubious conclusion from the provided text, especially since the
"morning stars" weren't created until the fourth day of Genesis.

>
> and in my opinion so was Jesus created before Gen.1:1 (Rev. 3:14)

Is Revelation 3:14 the correct reference? If so, I don't see how this
leads to the conclusion that Jesus was created (which He certainly
wasn't).

>
> Jesus says at John 17:5 "so now you, father, glorify me alonside
> yourself with the glory that I had alonside you before the word was"

Indeed. A very Trinitarian passage.

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