The Resourceful-Reacting Statistician

Your welcome, if the thanks is not facetious. Philo of course was a Jew from Alexandria. The use of Greek wordconcepts is pervasive in the commentaries and in the output of the councils at least through Constantinople 3.The use of such wordconcepts is also extant in the Gospels, the most notable example of which I can think of is John and the concept of logos. I think not enough scholarship has been devoted to considering that these early thinkers were trying to express in words thoughts and ideas that really had never been expressed before, in any language. Aramaic, Hebrew, early dialects of what is now Arabic, did not contain analogs for the ideas (or should I say feelings) that these early writers were trying to express. Certainly, as any part of a deconstruction project, one would want to get at this state of the vocabulary at the time these writers were working as well as the semantic shift that occured and has occured through the centuries. It is interesting. As for me, I think nothing turns on the use of the prefix "omni," as defined as "all." In an environment where there were many gods, what was being imparted as to the one God was really "the most" or "more than any other" or the "supreme." Thus, an argument that focuses on the question whether God is "all-knowing" misses the point that it is not necessary for God to be all-knowing, just that God be more knowing than any other life or force in being.