Subject: Greek genitive cases of the word "of" |
Bible Note: Ray, "What are your thoughts about being "sealed"?" I will put it in an adult baptism context. My wife was raised a Methodist, but her mother believed in adult baptism. My wife practised the Methodist faith and taught Sunday school for Children when she was in her teens. But she was never baptized until at age 38 she decided, much to my surprise, to enter the Catholic Church. When she was baptized at the Easter Vigil Mass, she was immediatley Confirmed by an annointing with chrism oil as hands were laid on her, with the words "Be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit." That is the adult rite of baptism in the Catholic Church. Perhaps that explains why I see baptismal connotations in Eph 1:13. There is an old Latin phrase used in the Catholic Church: "lex orendi, lex credendi," the rule of prayer is the rule of faith, or put another way, as we pray so we believe. Emmaus |