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Essay:Calming the Storm (view source)
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[[Jesus]]'s '''Calming the Storm''' is described in three [[Gospels]]: beginning at Matthew 8:23, Mark 4:39, and Luke 8:24. The issue is how Jesus actually calmed the storm: '''''by word, by deed, or by observation'''''? Modern physicians -- the insights of [[quantum mechanics]] -- suggest that the calming was achieved by observation, not by word or deed.
[[Jesus]]'s '''Calming the Storm''' is described in three [[Gospels]]: beginning at Matthew 8:23, Mark 4:39, and Luke 8:24. The issue is how Jesus actually calmed the storm: '''''by word, by deed, or by observation'''''? Modern physicians -- the insights of [[quantum mechanics]] -- suggest that the calming was achieved by observation, not by word or deed.
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Is "rebuked" the correct translation of the Greek term "ἐπιτιμάω", which appears in all three verses above and in connection with other miracles, such as Jesus's lifting of the fever in Luke 4:39? The real meaning of the Greek "ἐπιτιμάω" is closer to "judge" than to affirmatively rebuke. The term can even be used in a positive manner, as in "honor" or "raise the price of." The English term "rebuke" carries the primary connotation of a verbal communication, while in the Greek ἐπιτιμάω has the primary connotation of a non-verbal judgment.
In the Mark verse above, traditional translations insert the word "said" as though Jesus caused the calming by verbally ordering the sea to be still. But "λέγω" -- the Greek term used for said in some versions -- does not appear in the Greek above, and where it does appear in Greek versions its real meaning is to "lay", to "cause to lie down," or to "put to sleep." It only has a connotation of speaking when used in a context of verbal communication (as in putting one word with another), which is not the case here.
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