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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2005 15:31:38 GMT 1
If Good Friday is named after Jesus, why is it so called?
It wasn't a particularly good Friday for him was it?
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Post by Pilch on Mar 24, 2005 15:39:39 GMT 1
all fridays are good unless you have to work on the saturday
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Mar 24, 2005 15:50:52 GMT 1
Not too far from the truth there PILCH I think, in yee olde times wasn't Friday (as in every Friday) once seen as a holy day for celebration (as in religious celebration) or sommat? I think that’s why anyhows...
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Mar 24, 2005 16:00:28 GMT 1
If Good Friday is named after Jesus, why is it so called? It wasn't a particularly good Friday for him was it? an interesting quote... Calling the day of the Crucifixion ‘Good’ Friday is a designation that is peculiar to the English language. In German, for example, it is called Karfreitag. The Kar part is an obsolete word, the ancestor of the English word care in the sense of cares and woes, and it meant mourning. So in German, it is Mourning Friday. And that is what the disciples did on that day—they mourned. They thought all was lost. I’ve read that the word good used to have a secondary meaning of holy, but I can’t trace that back in my dictionary. There are a number of cases in set phrases where the words God and good got switched around because of their similarity. One case was the phrase God be with you, which today is just good-bye. So perhaps Good Friday was originally God’s Friday. But I think we call it Good Friday because, in pious retrospect, all that tragedy brought about the greatest good there could be.
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Post by PorkyShrew on Mar 24, 2005 16:04:59 GMT 1
an interesting quote... Calling the day of the Crucifixion ‘Good’ Friday is a designation that is peculiar to the English language. In German, for example, it is called Karfreitag. The Kar part is an obsolete word, the ancestor of the English word care in the sense of cares and woes, and it meant mourning. So in German, it is Mourning Friday. And that is what the disciples did on that day—they mourned. They thought all was lost. I’ve read that the word good used to have a secondary meaning of holy, but I can’t trace that back in my dictionary. There are a number of cases in set phrases where the words God and good got switched around because of their similarity. One case was the phrase God be with you, which today is just good-bye. So perhaps Good Friday was originally God’s Friday. But I think we call it Good Friday because, in pious retrospect, all that tragedy brought about the greatest good there could be. and you learn something new every day
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Post by Dicky Knee on Mar 24, 2005 16:18:46 GMT 1
It is called ‘Good’ Friday because of the goodness Jesus showed in giving life as a sacrifice for others.
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Post by Dicky Knee on Mar 24, 2005 16:20:40 GMT 1
an interesting quote... Calling the day of the Crucifixion ‘Good’ Friday is a designation that is peculiar to the English language. In German, for example, it is called Karfreitag. The Kar part is an obsolete word, the ancestor of the English word care in the sense of cares and woes, and it meant mourning. So in German, it is Mourning Friday. And that is what the disciples did on that day—they mourned. They thought all was lost. I’ve read that the word good used to have a secondary meaning of holy, but I can’t trace that back in my dictionary. There are a number of cases in set phrases where the words God and good got switched around because of their similarity. One case was the phrase God be with you, which today is just good-bye. So perhaps Good Friday was originally God’s Friday. But I think we call it Good Friday because, in pious retrospect, all that tragedy brought about the greatest good there could be. You've been on Ken Collins' web site.
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