Blainer: Good input, Kevin--thanks.
In a message dated 7/4/2005 12:22:48 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Blaine: Possible, but not
probable. IMO, the word "perfect" is too much a part of the language to
have changed meanings.
HERE IS WHAT IT MEANT IN 1828 accordoing to NOAH WEBSTER:
http://65.66.134.201/cgi-bin/webster/webster.exe?search_for_texts_web1828=perfect
PER'FECT, a. [L. perfectus, perficio, to complete; per and facio, to
do or make through, to carry to the end.]
1. Finished; complete;
consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and
kind; as a perfect statue; a perfect likeness; a perfect work; a perfect
system.
As full, as perfect in a hair as heart.
2. Fully informed; completely skilled; as men perfect in the use of
arms; perfect in discipline.
3. Complete in moral excellencies.
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in
heaven is perfect. Matt.5.
4. Manifesting perfection.
My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor.12.
Perfect chord,in music, a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the fifth and the octave; a perfect
consonance.
A perfect flower, in botany, has both stamen and pistil, or at least
another and stigma.
Perfect tense, in grammar, the preterit tense; a tense which expresses an
act completed.
PER'FECT, v.t. [L. perfectus, perficio.] To finish or
complete so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to any thing all
that is requisite to its nature and kind; as, to perfect a picture or statue.
2 Chron.8.
-Inquire into the nature and properties of things, and thereby perfect our
ideas of distinct species.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in
us. 1 John 4.
1. To instruct fully; to make fully skillful; as, to perfect one's self in
the rules of music or architecture; to perfect soldiers in discipline.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/4/2005 8:52:33 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At the time the King James Version was translated it
is possible that the
meaning of "perfect" was appropriate due to it's
denotation at that time,
but has evolved to mean something slightly
different today.
Blaine: Possible, but not probable. IMO, the word "perfect"
is too much a part of the language to have changed meanings. If it did
change, please do more than speculate--show some evidence it did
such. Otherwise, I have to conclude you are merely grabbing at a
straw.
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