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:I've never studied Greek, but what I'm seeing seems to back you up. According to Strong's, it is "literally someone who 'casts through,' i.e. making charges that bring down (destroy)." Perhaps this is where the confusion came from? --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 10:21, 25 April 2018 (EDT)
:I've never studied Greek, but what I'm seeing seems to back you up. According to Strong's, it is "literally someone who 'casts through,' i.e. making charges that bring down (destroy)." Perhaps this is where the confusion came from? --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 10:21, 25 April 2018 (EDT)
::There is a short story of Peter Bichsel "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" ("a table is a table"), which can be found in many German textbooks for high-school pupils: Bichsel describes a man who one day decides to call his ''table'' henceforth a ''carpet'', his ''bed'' a ''picture'', his ''chair'' a ''clock'' and so on. This amuses him for a while, but he get lost in his own language and cannot communicate with others any more.
::That's the problem here: Andy got an insight into the ''real'' meaning of διαβάλλω - and he is oblivious to the fact that no one else has ever understood the word in his way. Unfortunately, whenever Andy gets an insight, he tends to ignore things like a lexicon or a few hundred years of etymological science ... --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 16:13, 26 April 2018 (EDT)