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the full line being "Give us today our epiousion bread"

Today, most scholars reject the translation of epiousion as meaning daily. The word daily only has a weak connection to any proposed etymologies for epiousion. Moreover, all other instances of "daily" in the English New Testament translate hemera (ἡμέρα, "day"), which does not appear in this usage.[1][2] Because there are several other Greek words based on hemera that mean daily, no reason is apparent to use such an obscure word as epiousion.[4] The daily translation also makes the term redundant, with "this day" already making clear the bread is for the current day.[21]

i don't think wikipedia mentions this but it has 'pious' in the middle

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

epiousion was greek for sliced

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

It means "pan-fried, with an egg in the middle", you dolt!

[-] too_high_for_this@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

YOU FUCKING HEATHEN

IT MEANS DIPPED IN EGG THEN PAN FRIED

ANYTHING ELSE IS BLASPHEMY AND YOU WILL BURN FOR ETERNITY

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Judge not, lest thee be judged.

[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Egg not, lest thee be egged

[-] Smug@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I guess they didn't know the French already invented a word for that

[-] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Someone will hit you with a pan for saying things like that!

[-] nathanjell@infosec.pub 15 points 1 year ago

Hence the common phrase, best thing since epiousion bread. I thought it was obvious, I guess I'm the only one that drew the conclusion

[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

And we've been comparing how good other things are to it ever since

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