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The gospel
The gospel or good news is a theological concept in several religions. In the historical Roman imperial cult and today in Christianity, the gospel is a message about salvation by a divine figure, a savior, who has brought peace or other benefits to humankind. In Ancient Greek religion, the word designated a type of sacrifice or ritual dedication intended to thank the gods upon receiving good news.
The religious concept is found at least as far back as Greece's Classical era and Roman authors are known to have adopted it toward the end of the 1st century BCE. It is a central message of Christianity today, in which written accounts of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ are known as Gospels.
The concept of "gospel" is also significant in Islam, where it is referred to as the Injīl (Arabic: الإنجيل, romanized: Injīl, lit. 'good news'), believed to be a divine revelation given to ʿĪsā (Jesus).
Gospel (/ˈɡɒspəl/) is the Old English translation of the Koine Greek term εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion), meaning "good news". This may be analyzed as euangélion (εὖ, eû, '"good"' + ἄγγελος, ángelos, '"messenger"' + -ιον, -ion diminutive suffix). The Greek term was Latinized as evangelium in the Vulgate, and translated into Latin as bona annuntiatio.
In Old English, it was rendered as gōdspel (gōd, "good" + spel, "news"). The Old English term continued into Middle English Bible translations and survives in Modern English as gospel.
In Greek, the term originally referred to a reward or gratuity paid to a courier for bringing good news. It later came to designate the message of good news itself, and also a religious offering of thanks for good fortune.
In Islam, the Arabic term Injīl (الإنجيل) is derived from the Syriac ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ (awongelion), which itself originates from the same Greek word euangelion. The Quran mentions the Injīl as a divine scripture revealed to ʿĪsā (Jesus), regarded by Muslims as one of the four major revealed books, alongside the Torah, Zabur, and Quran.
In Ancient Greek religion the word εὐαγγέλια means a sacrifice offered for good tidings or good news. Like other Greek religious thanks-offerings, offerings took the form of animal sacrifice, offerings of food and drink, and ritual dedications. News of military victory was frequently celebrated with an offering. In the play The Knights by Aristophanes of 424 BCE, the comic character Paphlagon proposes an excessive sacrifice of a hundred heifers to Athena to celebrate good news. This word in Greek has a double meaning: the singular form means a reward paid to a human messenger who brings good news, and the plural form means a thanks-offering to the gods for good news.
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The gospel
The gospel or good news is a theological concept in several religions. In the historical Roman imperial cult and today in Christianity, the gospel is a message about salvation by a divine figure, a savior, who has brought peace or other benefits to humankind. In Ancient Greek religion, the word designated a type of sacrifice or ritual dedication intended to thank the gods upon receiving good news.
The religious concept is found at least as far back as Greece's Classical era and Roman authors are known to have adopted it toward the end of the 1st century BCE. It is a central message of Christianity today, in which written accounts of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ are known as Gospels.
The concept of "gospel" is also significant in Islam, where it is referred to as the Injīl (Arabic: الإنجيل, romanized: Injīl, lit. 'good news'), believed to be a divine revelation given to ʿĪsā (Jesus).
Gospel (/ˈɡɒspəl/) is the Old English translation of the Koine Greek term εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion), meaning "good news". This may be analyzed as euangélion (εὖ, eû, '"good"' + ἄγγελος, ángelos, '"messenger"' + -ιον, -ion diminutive suffix). The Greek term was Latinized as evangelium in the Vulgate, and translated into Latin as bona annuntiatio.
In Old English, it was rendered as gōdspel (gōd, "good" + spel, "news"). The Old English term continued into Middle English Bible translations and survives in Modern English as gospel.
In Greek, the term originally referred to a reward or gratuity paid to a courier for bringing good news. It later came to designate the message of good news itself, and also a religious offering of thanks for good fortune.
In Islam, the Arabic term Injīl (الإنجيل) is derived from the Syriac ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ (awongelion), which itself originates from the same Greek word euangelion. The Quran mentions the Injīl as a divine scripture revealed to ʿĪsā (Jesus), regarded by Muslims as one of the four major revealed books, alongside the Torah, Zabur, and Quran.
In Ancient Greek religion the word εὐαγγέλια means a sacrifice offered for good tidings or good news. Like other Greek religious thanks-offerings, offerings took the form of animal sacrifice, offerings of food and drink, and ritual dedications. News of military victory was frequently celebrated with an offering. In the play The Knights by Aristophanes of 424 BCE, the comic character Paphlagon proposes an excessive sacrifice of a hundred heifers to Athena to celebrate good news. This word in Greek has a double meaning: the singular form means a reward paid to a human messenger who brings good news, and the plural form means a thanks-offering to the gods for good news.