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Fri 10 Mar, 2006 05:56 am
..... Compassion is extremely broad. Through the compassion he feels for his child, a person's compassion encompasses all young and even all living beings, and acts as a sort of mirror to the comprehensiveness of the Name of All-Compassionate. Whereas passionate love restricts its gaze to its beloved and sacrifices everything for it. Or else to elevate and praise its beloved, it denigrates others, and in effect insults them and abuses their honour. For example, one said: "The sun saw my beloved's beauty and was embarrased. In order not to see it, it veiled itself in cloud." Lover, fine sir! What right do you have to impute shame to the sun, which is a light-filled page of eight Greatest Names?
Moreover, compassion is sincere, wants nothing in return; it is pure and seeks nothing in exchange. The self-sacrificing, unselfish compassion of animals for their young, at the most common degree even, is evidence for this. Passionate love, however, desires remuneration and seeks return. The weepings of passionate love are a sort of demanding, a desiring remuneration.......
Compassion requires action, pity does not...
Compassion is only one form of love...
The Greeks had a single separate word for each type of love...
Phileo = Human love
Agape = God's love...
Eros = Erotic love
Maternal, paternal, brotherly
etc...
Completely true.. Phileo must be used for Agape.. Eros is also one class but different one..
''Compassion is only one form of love...''
orginal...
It is philia not phileo (prononounced phi-lee-ah) and it means 'friendship'.
As you said agape means love between people, not erotic love and eros is the erotic love.
In English you have only one word for love. Maybe that's why you try to prove Greeks homosexuals?
Ellinas wrote:It is philia not phileo (prononounced phi-lee-ah) and it means 'friendship'.
As you said agape means love between people, not erotic love and eros is the erotic love.
In English you have only one word for love. Maybe that's why you try to prove Greeks homosexuals?
Thanks for your input I was using ancient Greek as used and transliterated in the Bible not modern Greek.
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=5368&version=kjv
I call phileo "human love" or you scratch my back I'll scratch yours... (nothing gay about that... ) hehe
Agape, I heard defined as: The love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation...
RexRed wrote:Ellinas wrote:It is philia not phileo (prononounced phi-lee-ah) and it means 'friendship'.
As you said agape means love between people, not erotic love and eros is the erotic love.
In English you have only one word for love. Maybe that's why you try to prove Greeks homosexuals?
Thanks for your input I was using ancient Greek as used and transliterated in the Bible not modern Greek.
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=5368&version=kjv
I call phileo "human love" or you scratch my back I'll scratch yours... (nothing gay about that... ) hehe
Agape, I heard defined as: The love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation...
These words are the same in older and modern Greek. Phileo is a verb, philia is the noun.
Ellinas wrote:RexRed wrote:Ellinas wrote:It is philia not phileo (prononounced phi-lee-ah) and it means 'friendship'.
As you said agape means love between people, not erotic love and eros is the erotic love.
In English you have only one word for love. Maybe that's why you try to prove Greeks homosexuals?
Thanks for your input I was using ancient Greek as used and transliterated in the Bible not modern Greek.
http://bible1.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=5368&version=kjv
I call phileo "human love" or you scratch my back I'll scratch yours... (nothing gay about that... ) hehe
Agape, I heard defined as: The love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation...
These words are the same in older and modern Greek. Phileo is a verb, philia is the noun.
Thanks for that distinction.
Love is truly a verb, that requires action...
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