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→‎Strange change of perspective: "κόσμον" is best translated today as the universal "us" - as proven by the extremely popular song, "we are the world."
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This situation isn't like the use of quotation marks at all. The Greeks certainly had the word "us". But John didn't use "us", he used κόσμον, or Kosmos, which is so remarkably similar to our modern word "cosmos" that there should be no confusion over the fact that it doesn't mean "us". [[User:PeterRyan|PeterRyan]] 15:11, 22 September 2012 (EDT)
 
This situation isn't like the use of quotation marks at all. The Greeks certainly had the word "us". But John didn't use "us", he used κόσμον, or Kosmos, which is so remarkably similar to our modern word "cosmos" that there should be no confusion over the fact that it doesn't mean "us". [[User:PeterRyan|PeterRyan]] 15:11, 22 September 2012 (EDT)
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:"κόσμον" is best translated today as the universal "us" - as proven by the extremely popular song, "we are the world."--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 15:14, 22 September 2012 (EDT)
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