tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049191548399642431.post4227521130783865100..comments2013-01-31T11:05:41.619-06:00Comments on The WOMBman's Bible: Who is Judas? Who can say?J. K. Gaylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049191548399642431.post-81744745129447101542009-01-09T15:32:00.000-06:002009-01-09T15:32:00.000-06:00I tend to see phileo used for affection (maybe lik...I tend to see phileo used for affection (maybe like cherish but much more demonstrative too), for buddies, for kissers, for moms & her kids, and so forth. Agapeo seems much broader--and in the case of the LXX and NT--as a complete substitute for Eros, almost a silencing of the god and all he represents.<BR/><BR/>When Suzanne posted on John 21, she opined wonderfully that the gospel writer was doing something stylistically. I think she's right! The author / translator may play with words for effect. Semantic differences and overlaps of meanings need not interfere with such meaning making. For example, my loved one can say to me, "I love you." And with exactly the same words, I can reply: "I LOVE you." In print the caps show. In oral communication, I may use a different pitch or volume or tone shape on the verb to tell her what I mean. If (unintentionally) I cough while trying to get the words out in the sentence, then we both laugh. She might say, "Freudian slip." We might laugh again. If we have to analyze it, then we become etic (outsiders). C. S. Lewis used to call this the difference between Enjoyment and Contemplation. To make the utterance static...to call the text something in itself without any Enjoyment... is, aptly, very unlike love.<BR/><BR/>But we linguists (and us awfully logical linguists more) sometime act like we prefer Contemplation. How exacting. How lonely.J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049191548399642431.post-33715806661172581492009-01-09T08:37:00.000-06:002009-01-09T08:37:00.000-06:00I see little difference between agapeo and phileo....I see little difference between agapeo and phileo. More difference between love and like when used in reference to relationships. How about love and cherish?Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12509596389764649667noreply@blogger.com