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17 lines
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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnTelios}{TELIOS ``tel-AY-os'' ``complete'' or ``perfect''.
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Aristotle said the TELOS (cognate word) of an acorn is the oak tree.
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So TELIOS means 'perfect' in the sense of what it was meant to become.
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\fnPar
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Contrast with the Platonic sense — "perfect" in popular English almost always means Platonic ideal,
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flawless, unattainable.
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TELEIOS is almost the opposite: fully actualized, having arrived at what it was always becoming.
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That inversion is the whole point and it's load-bearing across the Sermon on the Mount ("be ye therefore TELEIOS")
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and John's "it is finished" — TETELESTAI, same root, meaning ``brought to its TELOS'',
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not \textit{terminated}.
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}
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\fi
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