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10/17/2002 10:31 PM
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We've all heard of "iconoclasts" who delighted in desroying beautiful religious images.
I just found out that their opposites were called "iconodules". So far haven't been
able to find etymology of "iconodule".
Second page said suffix if iconodule is from Greek "loudos" meaning servant or slave. How do
you get "dule" from "loudos"?
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10/17/2002 11:53 PM
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How do you get "dule" from "loudos"?
Metathesis.
Or either it's from doulos, slave, bondsman, as per OED.
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10/18/2002 1:23 PM
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Dear Faldage: I found a site you might like: http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=1401 Doulos doo'-los Parts of Speech TDNT Noun 2:261,182 Definition 1.a slave, bondman, man of servile condition a.a slave b.metaph., one who gives himself up to another's will those whose service is used by Christ in extending and advancing his cause among men c.devoted to another to the disregard of one's own interests 2.a servant, attendant But when I searched that site for "loudos" it could not find it. I wonder if site where I found "loudos" made an error?
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10/18/2002 1:27 PM
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I wonder if site where I found "loudos" made an error?
I'll go with that, Dr. Bill. It's easy enough to confuse a lowercase delta and a lowercase lambda in small print.
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10/18/2002 3:19 PM
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iconodule<>iconolater<>idolater
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10/18/2002 3:50 PM
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Dear tsuwm: But calling the iconodules idolaters was stupid nastiness. I now forget the name
of the Saint who pointed out that the icons were not being worshipped, they were just
mnemonics to remind the faithful to whom to pray. Even in England there was deplorable
destruction of art work at cathedral at Ely, if I remember correctly. Goddam religious zealots.
Not long ago there was report of somebody vandalizing Michelangelo's sculpture of Mary
holding dead Jesus in her lap. The Pietà I think is the name.
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