Meaning of ekklesia | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of ecclesia.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“As there is one sun but many rays of the sun, there is one ekklesia with many rays (ekklesiai). The elders in these ekklesiai got no consecration. They were not office-holders.”

“The Gerousia assembles (50. 2), and the ekklesia also assembles (50. 3), and it seems that a great many voices were heard in it. When the issue seemed practically decided, Etymaridas, one of the Gerontes, succeeded in overpersuading both Gerousia and ekklesia (50. 6). In both these ekklesiai there seems to be plenty of talk.”

“[T]he "crowding" of two ekklesiai into four days should not prevent the acceptance of what is on the stone and surely amended and restored.”

“Ekklesias in progress might be abruptly adjourned, if unfavorable heavenly signs appeared: Thucydides 5.45.4–46.1 (“But before anything was ratified an earthquake occurred, and this ekklesia was adjourned. In the ekklesia on the next day …”); […]”

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