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Charity or Love: an etymological perspective
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The translators of the earliest English bibles were monks utterly immersed in Latin. This is important to remember since they were translating directly from Greek, and agape, the Greek word from which charite ultimately derives, is in Latin caritas, meaning “To esteem highly.”
Caritas never really denoted what charity denotes today: namely, giving things away for [...]