kahal vs ekklesia

kahal ekklesia

ἐκκλησία  ekklésia: an

assembly, a congregation

a gathering of citizens called out from their

homes into some public place

 Acts 19:39The Riot at Ephesus:

 [...] it shall be settled in the

regular assembly.[...]

קהל kahal

 the assembly of the Israelites as

people

Second Temple Judaism

1 Chronicles 29:1[...] David the king said to

all the assembly [...]

Acts 7:38Stephen citing Moses speaking to

the House of Israel ("out of Egypt") in the

wilderness: [...] This is the one who was in the congregation in

the wilderness [...]

The Roman numeral acronym LXX refer to the legendary seventy Jewish scholars who solely translated the Five Books of Moses as

early as the 3rd century BCE:

קהלkahal

ἐκκλησία  ekklésia

The little house church meeting

A local assembly of Christians gathered for

worship

1

1 Corinthians 14:19, 35 Paul about prophecy and tongues: [...] in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand [...]

Acts 5:42Day after day, in the

temple courts and from house to house, they

never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good

news […]

1

συνέρχεσθαι ἐνἐκκλησία = come together as fellowship

Colossians 4:16 Paul to the church of Laodicea: [...] have it [the epistle] also read in the church of

the Laodiceans [...] (Λαοδικέων)

2All the believers of a village or city

All the believers

of the world  

(The Body - the

Whole)

3

Ephesians 1:22Paul teaching about the Body as Christ’s church: [...] he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body.

Ephesians 4:16

1 Corinthians 12Paul's teaching about the Body: 27: Now you are the body of Christ [...]. 28: And God has appointed in the church [...]

From him the whole body, joined and held

together by every supporting ligament,

grows and builds itself up in love, as

each part does its work.

Romans 12:4For just as we have many

members in one body

and all the members do not have

the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ,

and individually members one of another.

Constantinople

…was the largest and wealthiest

European city and it was instrumental in the advancement of 

Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times.

The head was not Jesus anymore,but the

Emperor who then controlled all “churches” in the Eastern

Mediterranean.

The ekklesia of the followers of Jesus of Nazareth became the followers of the Emperor who controlled the bishops.

Colossians 2:19They have lost

connection with the head, from whom the

whole body, supported and held

together by its ligaments and

sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.