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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnTelios}{TELIOS ``tel-AY-os''  ``complete'' or ``perfect''. 
Aristotle said the TELOS (cognate word) of an acorn is the oak tree. 
So TELIOS means 'perfect' in the sense of what it was meant to become.

Contrast with the Platonic sense — "perfect" in popular English almost always means Platonic ideal, 
flawless, unattainable.
TELEIOS is almost the opposite: fully actualized, having arrived at what it was always becoming. 
That inversion is the whole point and it's load-bearing across the Sermon on the Mount ("be ye therefore TELEIOS") 
and John's "it is finished" — TETELESTAI, same root, meaning ``brought to its TELOS'',
not \textit{terminated}.
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