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Euangelion is typically translated as "Good News". Why is this an inadequate translation? Why did the authors choose this word when they chose to title the story of Christ's life?​

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The word gospel is derived from the Anglo-Saxon term god-spell, meaning “good story,” a rendering of the Latin evangelium and the Greek euangelion, meaning “good news” or “good telling.” Since the late 18th century the first three have been called the Synoptic Gospels, because the texts, set side by side, show a ...

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