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<blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 5932303" data-attributes="member: 65823">&quot;The Greek word agapē is defined as &quot;affection, goodwill, love, benevolence &quot; (Thayer, 4), and also &quot;love, generosity, kindly concern, devotedness&quot; (Moulton, 2). The first three English translations (Tyndale: 1535; Great Bible: 1540; Geneva: 1562) all rendered this &quot;love.&quot; The two successive translations (Bishop&#039;s Bible: 1602: King James: 1611) used &quot;charity&quot; instead. This may have been an attempt to bring out the subtle distinction that appears to exist between this word and the similar word in Greek, philos. Thayer writes about this distinction that agapaō (the verb form) &quot;properly denotes a love founded in admiration, veneration, esteem,&quot; while phileō &quot;denotes an inclination prompted by sense and emotion&quot; (653). Kittel writes, &quot;phileō is never used for love of God, and neither it nor agapaō ever denotes erotic love&quot; - (Kittel, Abridged, 1263-1264).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownFlush, post: 5932303, member: 65823"] [B]"[/B]The Greek word [I]agapē[/I] is defined as "affection, goodwill, love, benevolence " (Thayer, 4), and also "love, generosity, kindly concern, devotedness" (Moulton, 2). The first three English translations (Tyndale: 1535; Great Bible: 1540; Geneva: 1562) all rendered this "love." The two successive translations (Bishop's Bible: 1602: King James: 1611) used "charity" instead. This may have been an attempt to bring out the subtle distinction that appears to exist between this word and the similar word in Greek, [I]philos[/I]. Thayer writes about this distinction that [I]agapaō[/I] (the verb form) "properly denotes a love founded in admiration, veneration, esteem," while [I]phileō[/I] "denotes an inclination prompted by sense and emotion" (653). Kittel writes, "[I]phileō[/I] is never used for love of God, and neither it nor [I]agapaō[/I] ever denotes erotic love" - (Kittel, Abridged, 1263-1264). [/QUOTE]

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