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We also need Christians who are spiritually grounded in hypomone, that virtue of Revelation's church in crisis which translates as the ability to retain your beliefs while sustaining blows, or, "iron intransigence," which comes from a Greek verb root which can mean "to dare to do." which has been translated, rather limply, "patient endurance."
Jeremy John: The Occupation Of The Lord's Prayer Jeremy John 2011
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We also need Christians who are spiritually grounded in hypomone, that virtue of Revelation's church in crisis which translates as the ability to retain your beliefs while sustaining blows, or, "iron intransigence," which comes from a Greek verb root which can mean "to dare to do." which has been translated, rather limply, "patient endurance."
Jeremy John: The Occupation Of The Lord's Prayer Jeremy John 2011
fbharjo commented on the word hypomone
hopeful patience
January 27, 2007