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16 lines
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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnIesous}{IESOUS (``ee-ay-SOOS''). The Greek form of Hebrew Yehoshua — the same name
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rendered "Joshua" in the Septuagint, where IESOUS son of Naue leads Israel into the promised
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land (see the book of Joshua).
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A Greek-literate Jewish reader hearing IESOUS in the Gospels would have caught this
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echo instantly: a new IESOUS, leading us anew into what is promised.
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\fnPar
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"Jesus" hides this. Latin first wrote the name as IESUS — Latin had no letter J yet; J began
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as a mere variant way of writing I, still carrying the same sound, and wasn't distinguished as
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a separate letter with its own sound until the 1500s, not fully settled until the 1600s. The
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FNT retains IESOUS to keep the echo audible.
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}
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\fi
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