THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014 A PEACE OF HIM If youre at war with your sins, take it up with God. His Son has been known to say Do you want a peace of Me?. 14 Eustace 10:16 war (n.) late Old English wyrre, werre large-scale military conflict, from Old North French werre war (Old French guerre difficulty, dispute; hostility; fight, combat, war; Modern French guerre), from Frankish *werra, from Proto-Germanic *werz-a- (cognates: Old Saxon werran, Old High German werran, German verwirren to confuse, perplex), from PIE *wers- (1) to confuse, mix up. Cognates suggest the original sense was to bring into confusion. Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian guerra also are from Germanic; Romanic peoples turned to Germanic for a word possibly to avoid Latin bellum because its form tended to merge with bello- beautiful. There was no common Germanic word for war at the dawn of historical times. Old English had many poetic words for war (wig, guð, heaðo, hild, all common in personal names), but the usual one to translate Latin bellum was gewin struggle, strife (related to win (v.)). Posted by Eustace St. James @ proverbsofeustace.blogspot/2014/10/a-peace-of-him.html Labels: peace, sins, war Location: The Eustace Institute, Downingtown, PA 19335, USA
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:36:56 +0000
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