[00:00] OPENING Recap of Episode 6. Word swaps and corruptions are only two of the techniques. There is a third — the most widespread of all — and once you see it, you will find it on nearly every page of your New Testament.[04:00] TRANSLATE vs TRANSLITERATE Translation renders the meaning. Transliteration renders the sound. The transliterated word looks English, but its meaning has been left behind in the original language. Meaning hidden in plain sight.[09:00] BAPTIZO = IMMERSE The most consequential example. In secular Greek: dyeing cloth, a sinking ship. The meaning is physical, concrete, and unambiguous. Matthew 3:16 re-read with "immerse" — the picture changes.[15:00] TAVAL / HEBREW CONFIRMATION Salkinson uses taval (TWOT 787) — the same word used for Naaman dipping in the Jordan (2 Kings 5:14) and hyssop dipped in blood at Passover (Exodus 12:22). The Hebrew confirms the Greek.[19:00] CALVIN'S ADMISSION The translators knew. Calvin, Luther, Wesley, Aquinas, Moses Stuart — all confirmed the meaning. Rule Number Three kept the "old ecclesiastical words." The accommodation was always deliberate, never ignorant.[26:00] CHRISTOS & APOSTOLOS Christos is not a last name — it is Mashiach, the Anointed One. Apostolos is not a rank — it is "sent one." Peter's great confession becomes a proclamation, not an identification. The same Greek word, translated inconsistently, hides who God still sends.[31:00] THREE BAPTISMS / HOMEWORK Ernst's own journey — sprinkled Catholic, immersed Baptist, sprinkled Presbyterian. Three traditions, three modes, one English word that accommodated them all. Homework: replace "baptize" with "immerse." Replace "Christ" with "the Anointed One." Notice what you hear when the meaning comes through.
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BAPTIZO (βαπτίζω)
To immerse, to dip, to plunge beneath the surface. Used in secular Greek for dyeing cloth and for a sinking ship. TWOT 787 (Hebrew taval).
TRANSLITERATION
The technique of importing a word's sound from one language into another while leaving its meaning behind. A blank container the reader must fill from tradition.
CHRISTOS (Χριστός)
"Anointed One." Not a surname. The Greek rendering of the Hebrew Mashiach (TWOT 1255c). Every occurrence is a declaration, not an identification.
APOSTOLOS (ἀπόστολος)
"Sent one" — an emissary with a commission. Not a rank. Applied in the NT to Barnabas and Epaphroditus, not only the Twelve. The KJV renders it inconsistently.
THE SEVEN-WORD PATTERN
Ekklesia, episkopos, diakonos, presbyteros, baptizo, christos, apostolos — seven Greek terms where the English reader is not seeing what the original says. Swapped, corrupted, or hidden behind a sound.
