喜965: Narcissus


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Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.

ναρκάω narkaō, “make numb, stupefy” – properly, to numb from up to down (used as an ancient medical term meaning “stupefy,” literally, “make numb, paralyze”

“Ποιος είναι εκεί?”
“Who’s there?”

“Ποιος είναι εκεί?”

narcotic (n.)

late 14c., narcotik, “substance which directly induces sleep or allays sensibility and blunts the senses,” from Old French narcotique (early 14c.), noun use of adjective, and directly from Medieval Latin narcoticum, from Greek narkōtikon, neuter of narkōtikos “making stiff or numb,” from narkōtos, verbal adjective of narkoun “to benumb, make unconscious,” from narkē “numbness, deadness, stupor, cramp” (also “the electric ray”)

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Romans 8
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.


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