CHAPTER 7 Defining Evangelizing - Evangelism Unlimited

372 Evangelizology
2—TO PROCLAIM
7) katagge,llw (Ø OT LXX uses; 18 NT uses) – to proclaim (perhaps to denounce, decry,
declare, confront, contest, protest, challenge, promulgate, propagate, disseminate,
countermand):
Could this word have been translated “protesting” in an early French translation of 1 Cor
11:26 (prior to the 1530 Lefèvre?), leading to the following phrase on the poster for the
1534 “placard incident”? “The fruit of the holy scene of Jesus Christ [the Lord’s Supper]
is to publicly make a protest of one’s faith and insure confidence of one’s salvation have
memory of the death and passion of Jesus Christ, through which we are redeemed from
damnation and perdition.” 499
Friberg: 14694 14694 katagge,llw impf. kath,ggellon; 1aor. kath,ggeila; 2aor. pass. kathgge,lhn;
used of solemn religious messages; (1) proclaim (solemnly), announce something (AC 4.2);
(2) proclaim, tell about someone (PH 1.17)
Liddell-Scott Lexicon: katagge,llw kat&agge,llw, f. elw/, to denounce, betray, Xen. 2. to declare,
po,lemon Lys. Hence kata,ggeltoj
Notice for example another of many verbs with the prefix “kata,” whose meaning is
amplified in a negative or emphatic sense:
katakri,nw (17 NT uses), with “kata,” (against with gen) + “kri,nw” (to judge), combined meaning
to condemn
a) “All the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced
these days,” Acts 3:24
b) “Proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead,” Acts 4:2
c) “They began to proclaim the word of God,” Acts 13:5
d) “Forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,” Acts 13:38
e) “We proclaimed the word of the Lord,” Acts 15:36
f) “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of
salvation,” Acts 16:17
g) “And are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being
Romans,” Acts 16:21
h) “This Jesus who I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.” Acts 17:3
i) “The Word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also,” Acts 17:13
j) “Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you,” Acts 17:23
k) “He should be first to proclaim light,” Acts 26:23 (of Jesus proclaiming)
l) “because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world, Rom 1:8
m) “Proclaiming to you the testimony of God,” 1 Cor 2:1
n) “Proclaim the Gospel,” 1 Cor 9:14
o) “Proclaim the Lord’s death,” 1 Cor 11:26
p) “The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition,” Phil 1:17
q) “Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I
rejoice, yes, and I will rejoice,” Phil 1:18
r) “And we proclaim Him [Jesus],” Col 1:28
499 “True articles on the horrible, great and unbearable abuses of the Papal Mass…” [online]; accessed 12 Oct
2005; available from http://www.bethel-fr.com/afficher_texte.php?id=891.6; Internet; translation mine. [P.S. I could not
access this website when I tried in September 2006]. I have placed my translation of the text of this poster on my
website at: http://www.evangelismunlimited.org/08b_placard_contre_la_messe_1534-English.doc.