kahal vs ekklesia
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ἐκκλησία ekklésia: an
assembly, a congregation
a gathering of citizens called out from their
homes into some public place
Acts 19:39The Riot at Ephesus:
[...] it shall be settled in the
regular assembly.[...]
קהל kahal
the assembly of the Israelites as
people
Second Temple Judaism
1 Chronicles 29:1[...] David the king said to
all the assembly [...]
Acts 7:38Stephen citing Moses speaking to
the House of Israel ("out of Egypt") in the
wilderness: [...] This is the one who was in the congregation in
the wilderness [...]
The Roman numeral acronym LXX refer to the legendary seventy Jewish scholars who solely translated the Five Books of Moses as
early as the 3rd century BCE:
קהלkahal
ἐκκλησία ekklésia
The little house church meeting
A local assembly of Christians gathered for
worship
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1 Corinthians 14:19, 35 Paul about prophecy and tongues: [...] in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand [...]
Acts 5:42Day after day, in the
temple courts and from house to house, they
never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good
news […]
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συνέρχεσθαι ἐνἐκκλησία = come together as fellowship
Colossians 4:16 Paul to the church of Laodicea: [...] have it [the epistle] also read in the church of
the Laodiceans [...] (Λαοδικέων)
2All the believers of a village or city
All the believers
of the world
(The Body - the
Whole)
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Ephesians 1:22Paul teaching about the Body as Christ’s church: [...] he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body.
Ephesians 4:16
1 Corinthians 12Paul's teaching about the Body: 27: Now you are the body of Christ [...]. 28: And God has appointed in the church [...]
From him the whole body, joined and held
together by every supporting ligament,
grows and builds itself up in love, as
each part does its work.
Romans 12:4For just as we have many
members in one body
and all the members do not have
the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ,
and individually members one of another.
Constantinople
…was the largest and wealthiest
European city and it was instrumental in the advancement of
Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times.
The head was not Jesus anymore,but the
Emperor who then controlled all “churches” in the Eastern
Mediterranean.
The ekklesia of the followers of Jesus of Nazareth became the followers of the Emperor who controlled the bishops.
Colossians 2:19They have lost
connection with the head, from whom the
whole body, supported and held
together by its ligaments and
sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.