Living by Faith Isn't a Sure Bet

[The Unprofitable Servant]

@Christ4Ever I am going to show you a mystery to see if you can connect the whole context of what Jesus is saying in Matthew chapter 23 and ultimately solve it.

fa·ther
/ˈfäT͟Hər/
noun
noun: father; plural noun: fathers; noun: Father; noun: Father of the Church; plural noun: Fathers of the Church; plural noun: Fathers; plural noun: the Fathers; plural noun: the Church Fathers
1. a man in relation to his natural child or children.
synonyms: dad
-a male animal in relation to its offspring.
LITERARY
-an ancestor.
synonyms: ancestor, forefather, forebear, predecessor, antecedent, progenitor, primogenitor
"the religion of my fathers"
antonyms: descendant
-an important figure in the origin and early history of something.
noun: founding father; plural noun: founding fathers
"Dorsey should be remembered as the father of gospel music"
synonyms: originator, initiator, founder, inventor, creator, maker, author, architect
"the father of democracy"
-a man who gives care and protection to someone or something.
"the prince is widely regarded as the father of the nation"
-the oldest or most respected member of a society or other body.
synonyms: leader, elder, patriarch, official
"the city fathers"
-(in Christian belief) the first person of the Trinity; God.
noun: the Father
synonyms: God, Lord, Lord God
"our heavenly Father"

LITERARY
-used in proper names, especially when personifying time or a river, to suggest an old and venerable character.
"Father Thames"
2. (often as a title or form of address) a priest.
"pray for me, Father"
synonyms: priest, pastor, parson, clergyman, cleric, minister, preacher
3. early Christian theologians (in particular of the first five centuries) whose writings are regarded as especially authoritative.

verb
verb: father; 3rd person present: fathers; past tense: fathered; past participle: fathered; gerund or present participle: fathering
1.be the father of.
"he fathered three children"
synonyms: parent, be the father of, bring into the world, spawn, sire, breed
-treat with the protective care usually associated with a father.
noun: fathering
"the two males share the fathering of the cubs"
-be the source or originator of.
"a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the world"
-make a woman pregnant.
"he fathered a child on a one-night stand"
-assign the paternity of a child or responsibility for a book, idea, or action to.
"a collection of Irish stories was fathered on him"

ARCHAIC
-appear as or admit that one is the father or originator of.
"a singular letter from a lady, requesting I would father a novel of hers"
PHRASES
like father, like son — a son's character or behavior can be expected to resemble that of his father.
ORIGIN
Old English fæder ; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pater and Greek patēr .

(Here is a hint)

verb
/vərb/

noun
GRAMMAR
noun: verb; plural noun: verbs

1. 1. a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

verb
verb: verb; 3rd person present: verbs; past tense: verbed; past participle: verbed; gerund or present participle: verbing

1. 1. use (a word that is not conventionally used as a verb, typically a noun) as a verb.
   "any English noun can be verbed, but some are more resistant than others"
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4. In peace and Love

 

[Christ4Ever]

@The Unprofitable Servant
The etymology of the Word only increases the knowledge of how a word is to be seen contextually. For it is in the context of Scripture that one determines what is the intended variant concerning the word. Otherwise at least in Matt 23:9 and in the etymology of the word "father" there would have been no distinction in how the words were written (capitalization). Unless........place previous questions posed to you here.

At your service brother.
With the Love of Christ Jesus.
YBIC
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