Letter 045 — The Whole Letter: Hupernikao (Romans 8)
The phrase more than conquerors translates one Greek word Paul may have invented. Hupernikao. Over-conquerors. Today we sit with the word, and the thunder at the end of the chapter.
In this letter
- The closing thunder of Romans 8:31-39
- Hupernikao (G5245) — the compound that gives us more than conquerors
- Huper + nikao — over + to conquer
- The seven-item list (tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword) as Paul's autobiography
- Psalm 44 quoted in v. 36
- The longer list at the close — death, life, angels, principalities, powers, time, space, anything
- A direct…
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