 repentance in the Greek. Now before we begin, just a disclaimer, I don't read, write or speak Greek so I am not authoritative on how the Greek should best be translated. I am only doing this video to deal with the nonsense that is perpetuated by many other Christians who also don't speak Greek by the way and because even without speaking Greek it's easy to debunk some of the wild claims that are made regarding this subject. All claims made in this video are substantiated using either a concordance or secondhand information but sources will be presented on-screen where possible. I have questioned two native Greek speakers about some of the issues discussed in this video, one of whom provided me with some very helpful information and resources to prepare for it and he is a regular subscriber as well. So in video 21 we looked at the Hebrew Old Testament and we considered how God repented and we saw that repentance and turning are interchangeable. The verbs underpinning those verses may either refer to God repenting or man repenting. Now obviously when God repents it's never about sin but when man repents it's only sometimes about sin. It doesn't mean that it's always about sin. I remember that we looked at how people try to play tricks with the fact that there's two words in Hebrew, Nakham and Shubh and so they'll try to say that you know God repenting is a different kind of repentance and people will do the same trick with the Greek as well because there's two verbs that underpin the verb repent in English and one particular verb is more widely used in the verses that deal with sin and also with salvation and the gospel and the other word is used for more mundane issues. There is one verse in the Greek New Testament that quotes the Hebrew Old Testament where the verb repent is used referring to God not repenting and obviously this has nothing to do with sin therefore. This gives us a bridge between the Hebrew word and its equivalent Greek word and it's Hebrew 721 which quotes Psalm 110 for saying the Lord has sworn and will not repent so as you can see it's got nothing to do with turning from sin it just means that God won't undo this action. He won't revoke the next bit that Jesus is the high priest forever after the order of milk is a deck. So as we saw in the previous video we looked at the Hebrew and the word is Nakham and it's a variation of this word essentially that's behind Psalm 110 verse 4 that God will not repent and we saw an instance where this same word is used to refer to man repenting and sometimes that's even of sin like in Jeremiah 8.6. So the word Nakham in Hebrews is quoted in the Greek using metamelemi which in Strong's is reference number 3338 and the most basic definition of this word is to regret or to repent and the word essentially has two parts. We've got meta meaning change or after and mello meaning care or concern and it can also refer to a change of mind according to Strong's concordance. The noun form may be translated as remorse but is never used in the New Testament so it's not indexed in Strong's concordance. As we saw with the Hebrew and does happen in English but with less variety because we use more words Greek verbs may have variants depending on the context such as the tense and the object of the verb. So for example there'll be variants of metamelemi that include but not exclusively metamele face metameleite and metameleisete. And for simplicity's sake as we did with the Hebrew we won't delve into all the different variations because it doesn't really matter too much we'll just look at the base word from the concordance to make our definition and what whichever word has a unique reference number in Strong's. So if a word uses a variant I'll just really use the base word for interpretation and I apologize in advance for my mispronunciation because as I said I do have a Greek subscriber so he'll know that I'm doing a terrible job of pronouncing these words. So here's a couple of other verses using the same verb metamelemi. So we've got second Corinthian seven eight for I made you sorry with a letter. I do not repent though I did repent. And then you've also got Matthew 27 three where Judas repented of betraying innocent blood. So in total metamelemi is used in six verses of the New Testament and our King James Bible consistently translates it as repent or repented. Modern Bible substitute this with many other words and they don't necessarily translate it into the same word every time. For example, they may translate it as remorse or regret and then in Hebrew seven twenty one they'll just translate it as the Lord will not change his mind. But there are other Greek words used as well. So if we take for example Mark one for this is repentance in the noun form the baptism of repentance as it were. Now when we looked at the Hebrew the word Nakham really only had one noun equivalent that was ever used in the whole Old Testament. In the Greek we have the noun used about twenty six times if I recall correctly and so this suggests that in the Greek language the noun was perhaps more frequently used or perhaps repentance could also be seen as a status not just an action. So when you convert and you get saved not only have you repented but you have now reached the status of repentance as it were and that's why for example the Bible might say things like works meet for repentance because if you hadn't repented there'd be no benefit in doing those works so they're only meet for people who have repented aka repentance. So the noun in our Bible comes from the word metanoia. So in Strong's this is reference number three three four one. The definition in Strong's is a change of mind or repentance and the word essentially has two parts you've got meta meaning change or after a noia meaning mind or understanding reason think or perceive. Strong's definition will also give change of in a man and compunction with guilt and penitence because the Greek is sensationalized just as the English and Hebrew are sensationalized by many Christians. So that's the noun and we've seen the verb metamelemi which is used only a handful of times but there is another verb that's used far more commonly and this verb is metaneo and the verb pretty much matches the noun i.e. it's a change of mind or repent with additional dressed up definitions and it comes from the word for change or after and the word for mind or think. This verb is used far more widely and so obviously the most commonly quoted statements will use it such as Matthew 3 2 repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand Luke 13 3 except you repent you shall all likewise perish Acts 2 38 repent and be baptized every one of you Acts 8 22 repent therefore of this thy wickedness and Revelation 222 accept they repent of their deeds. Now there is another word that's also used in the bible and that's ametimeritos which is basically an adjective form of metamelemi but with a negative prefix although it's translated to English as a noun in one of the two verses that use it. So you've got Romans 11 9 for the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance and that's that's translated into the noun rather than adjective and then the other example comes from 2nd Corinthians 7 10 where Godly Sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of and I've coloured the noun repentance in blue because that's actually translated from metanoia it's the repented of that's translated from ametimeritos. So the claim being made essentially by the repent of sins messengers is that metanoia is always used in the salvific statements and verses that are undeniably about sin such as repent and believe the gospel repent and be baptized for the remission of sins repent or you shall perish repent of your wickedness or her fornication or their evil deeds. Metamelemi is always used in non-salvific statements and more mundane statements of regret such as for example in reference to God in Hebrew 7 21. So this is a very similar issue to what we dealt with in the last video when we looked at the two words in Hebrew we've got two words in Greek and different claims are being made about each word so when God repents it's this word but when we have to turn from sin or get saved it's this word and so because this same word is used for the verses about turning from sin and it's used for the same verses about salvation even when sin is not mentioned therefore repent of your sins to be saved because it's the same word but once again as we saw with the Hebrew it's one of those almost but not quite actually true statements it's a false claim it's just not immediately obvious that it's false. So the example is John the Baptist's repentance so to begin with if we compare Matthew's and Luke's account of John's preaching Matthew quotes John directly so it's the verb metaneo is used whereas Luke as a narrator is summarizing the story but not directly quoting him so it uses the the noun so obviously the verb metaneo is interchangeable with metanoia because one's the verb and one's the noun but in summary one and the same thing but what's interesting is now multiple times I've used this example in the series I've referred to Matthew 21 32 to define what repentance means here Jesus is referring back to John the Baptist's preaching of repentance and essentially says that the publicans and harlots which are types of sinners believed him and the chief priests did not metamellomy that they might believe him so Jesus uses metamellomy to define John the Baptist's repentance as believing the message that he was preaching not turning from sin nothing in this verse states whether the publicans and harlots turned from their sins or not and therefore it doesn't define that as the metamellomy here so in Matthew 3 John the Baptist said metaneo but when Jesus refers back to it he says metamellomy so it's interesting that both metamellomy and metaneo come from Matthew's gospel account yet he's used different words and metamellomy is instead referring back to the metaneo which is the actual quote so it makes sense to assume that metaneo is probably the literal quote that John said but Jesus is just referring back to it so he wouldn't quote John directly he's just summarizing what John was preaching and he simply uses an alternative verb to do it now of course this is where the false prophets get desperate and they say things like well Jesus wasn't interpreting John's repentance John's metaneo was about turning from sin so it's just here in Matthew 21 that Jesus is getting at the chief priest for not believing so as well as repenting of sin because of the metaneo they should have also metamellomade and believed him as well so they'll say metaneo is changing your sinful lifestyle metamellomy is changing your intellectual ascent and then metanoia you could say encompasses both of these things I guess well look if this doesn't do it for you I don't really know what does I don't know what else I can do for these people later in Acts we have Paul essentially preaching the same message is referring back to John the Baptist's message of repentance and he uses the noun just like Luke's gospel uses the noun and calls it the baptism of repentance so it's exactly the same terminology used here and once again just as with Jesus in Matthew 21 32 Paul is interpreting John the Baptist's message of metanoia that they should believe on him no mention of whether they should turn from sin or not so metanoia is the noun which has more similarity with metaneo but it's still interchangeable and equivalent with Jesus' message of metamellomy it still encompasses the same underpinning words so when John preached the baptism of repentance Paul reflects back on this in Acts 19 and defines it as they should believe on him he didn't say that they should turn from their sins that's not how Paul claims to have understood John the Baptist's metanoia well the thing is about Paul's statement here is shut up and if we go back to the verse I read earlier from 2nd Corinthians we only looked a few slides ago we saw the noun coming from metanoia which is the noun for metaneo while the not to be repented of comes from our metamellitus not our metaneos and the implication here being that once Godless Orro works repentance towards salvation once that has happened one will never repent away from it so it's an irreversible repentance there are also some secondary sources we could use to see metaneo and metamellomy being used interchangeably the first source that comes to mind is the septuagon which is a greek translation of the old testament it's believed to have first been translated and written in the third century before christ though since we only have fragments from that period most manuscripts are dated a few centuries after christ so this basically came about because following the Babylonian exile and the 400-ish years between the testaments Greek and Aramaic had displaced Hebrew as the commonly spoken language among the Jews so although it's a greek translation and not the original Hebrew some surviving manuscripts are actually dated far older than most of the Hebrew Masoretic text so modern bibles now have started to take the septuagon into account when it differs from the Hebrew in some key verses now as a disclaimer i should point out that your king james bible in english is based on the Hebrew Masoretic text exclusively not the greek septuagon text so when we justify our doctrine from the old testament we are basing this on the Hebrew not the greek because in some verses they do differ however where there are no conflicts between the Hebrew and Greek text the septuagon is still useful to show us how the Hebrew is translated into its greek equivalent particularly in Koine greek which is the same language that our new testament was written in the same language used by jesus and the apostles when speaking in greek so just as we looked at Nakham and Shubh in this episode we can see how the septuagon will see how the greek the koine greek translates Nakham in the old testament so i've handpicked a few verses let's just see how they're translated into koine so we have Genesis 6 7 and this is where it repents the lord that he made the earth it's a variant of Nakham and it's translated using a variant of metamelemia essentially now hosea 118 is an interesting one and actually overlooked this in the last video when we looked at the Hebrew this is an unusual one because it's the only verse that uses repentings that's quite an unusual variant because the Hebrew nikham is also ever so slightly different to Nakham and what makes this doubly interesting is that the greek translation in the septuagont uses metameleia which is the noun form of metamelemia this noun is never used in the new testament only metanoia is used this is the one instance of the noun for metamelemia being used and it's in the old testament now given the two verses that we've seen so far somebody will probably say well that's god repenting and it's metamelemia so you've just proven it's a different greek word well okay have it your way then let's look at a few metaneos so i've just shown you genesis six seven let's compare that side by side with Jeremiah 428 because both of these verses use the exact same variant of Nakham in the Hebrew you can see the written Hebrew that is the exact same letters yet they are translated differently in the greek septuagont because in genesis it's translated as metamelevin whereas in Jeremiah it's translated as metanoiso so genesis six seven uses a variant of metamelemia but Jeremiah 428 uses a variant of metaneo they're both about god repenting and both use the exact same Hebrew form yet they've translated one verse into a different verb let's look at another example Amos 7 3 this is god repenting again not about sin obviously and the greek translation uses a variant of metaneo not metamelemia metaneo does not imply turning from sin because according to this verse god metaneo'd here is another example of god repenting in Jonah 3 9 and again it uses a variant of metaneo not metamelemia so that's god repenting what about man repenting so in exodus 13 17 we have an example of man repenting nothing to do with turning from sin if anything they would be repenting too sin if they carried this out that they would repent and go back to Egypt and this uses a variant of metamelemia in Jeremiah 8 6 this is about repenting of sin still uses the Hebrew word Nakham of course and it does use a variant of metaneo in Jeremiah 31 19 and this is actually numbered differently in the septuagint because that the numbers don't match but this uses a variant of metaneo even though the repenting is man repenting and it's not about sin so we see metaneo being used both for man repenting of sin and repenting of something that's not strictly sin now just as a disclaimer i didn't find any verses in the septuagint where metamelemia was used for turning from sin that doesn't mean that no such verse exists rather like our king james bible the septuagint uses other words for turn and some verses that say repent in Hebrew or english are actually phrased quite differently in the septuagint and later in the video you'll probably understand why it doesn't use metamelemia in that kind of way but we've seen it proven that these words are both interchangeable they're both used in reference to god repenting even from the same Hebrew variant in some cases and both used in the context that are not about sin so those words were used interchangeably in the Koine Greek that our New Testament is translated from the language that Jesus and the apostles were able to speak but i also found this interchangeability in modern greek too now as many of you know in english i am king james only on this channel we do not reference other bibles except in some cases where i have to compare a few things now i am yet to do a video in this series about some of the problems with repentance in our modern bibles and how they butcher the definition by substituting it with other words so i can't testify whether that same problem happens so extensively in greek translations obviously they're a little bit closer to source so i can't say how integral or accurate modern greek translations are but even though greek speakers could understand the albeit archaic koine greek there are still various attempts to produce modern greek translations of the bible and i came across this little nugget of information on new version there are several bible versions in modern greek available i mentioned earlier in this video that matthew 2132 uses a variant of metamellum a even though jesus referring back to john the baptist metaneo in modern greek metamellum a is now an archaic word most greek speakers will probably instead use a word metanyono which translates to english as regret and is more etymologically similar to metaneo i.e change or after and mind and think so i found two bible translations in modern greek both translated by the helenic bible society and instead of using the original metamellum a in matthew 2132 they have instead substituted it with metaneo not metaneono they essentially use the same variant of metaneo that can be found in ax 238 repent and be baptised and ax 319 repent and be converted if metaneo is really a different kind of repentance than metamellum a they could have done what english bibles do by substituting it entirely with a completely different word for example the asv says you did not afterwards change your mind instead of repent and not afterwards the greek translators could have likewise substituted metamellum a with something else like metaneono but they didn't how dare they use metaneo thereby suggesting that it's perfectly interchangeable with metamellum a and doesn't automatically mean turning from sin it's just so rude how dare you so even with all these lord shippers and sinless perfectionists bombarding us with this line that metaneo is a different kind of repentance than metamellum a some greek translation committee somewhere decided that the words were interchangeable enough to replace metamellum a with metaneo because metamellum a is an archaic word so as to make it more intelligible to a modern greek speaker incredible you know it's like native greeks just don't know how to speak greek anymore so they have to come to us english speaking lord shippers who did two semesters of biblical greek to correct it for them unbelievable a disgrace to their own country now someone might object to this and say well you have had to stretch to modern greek or old testament translation sources to prove metamellum a and metaneo being used interchangeably your example in matthew 21 32 and 2nd crinthian 7 10 are not very concrete you still can't prove that metaneo or metanoi in the original koine greek new testament is not about sin or at least not about salvation it's either one or the other well if you've been following this series so far you already know that's completely absurd because we've looked at all of these different passages like sinners to repentance and repent and be baptized and we've seen what the definition of repentance is from those passages like when Jesus was preaching repentance there's no mention of sin so how is it about repenting of sins then but we just looked at the context to see what the repentance was about however even if they're not about turning from sin people will still say that they have salvific connotations it'd be very difficult to argue that like repent and be baptized for the remission of sins is not tied with your conversion to getting saved so if we have some verses about turning from sin i mean it's the same word used to verses about salvation and the new testament doesn't use metaneo or metanoi repentance in such a common way as the old testament does you know and it said that god repented it's from nackam it's quite common not really so common in the greek new testament then perhaps we can't prove that metaneo or metanoi in the new testament is never about salvation try me in hebrus 12 17 it refers to esor being unable to find repentance and it's metanoia though he sought it carefully with tears now if you go back and read the story of esor in genesis 25 and 27 it never actually says that he tried to repent or that he could not repent genesis never describes esor's story as one of repentance but this is how the writer of hebrus is describing it and you know people of course try to make this story all about salvation suggest that that's how the writer of hebrus is describing it but the writer of hebrus is not describing esor as repenting for salvation or trying to and couldn't he's using an old testament story allegorically to make a point about salvation perhaps in the new testament the story of esor if you read it not really about salvation in of itself sure it's a picture but it's not about the literal issue and despite the way that esor is condemned in the new testament in the way that it describes him he was actually blessed later in his life in genesis and he did reconcile with jacob so genesis actually does look on esor quite favorably and technically it was jacob who sinned against esor if you want to get really technical so esor's inability to obtain the blessing had nothing to do with repentance that leads to salvation or even repenting of sin really genesis never describes him as being able to seek repentance or being unable to but the Greek new testament still uses metanoia to describe his situation so you could apply this in other ways for example when samson did some stupid things and was blinded by the philistines even if he repented of his sins quote unquote he couldn't restore his life and get his sight back to the way it was before so like esor he would find no place for metanoia or repentance and obviously hebrus 12 will perhaps need its own video one day we can go into a bit more detail about that but let's move on to the next point even secular literature uses variants of metanoia and metanoia in a secular way for example plutarch's morality of volume two uses metanoides but it isn't anything to do with sin and you can see the greek and the english compared side by side there if you want to pause it and read that little section there now secular literature obviously doesn't prove what biblical repentance is but it does show that in the language that jesus and the apostle spoke metano can be used to describe changes of mind that have nothing to do with turning from sin so therefore if you can't explicitly prove that turning from sin is the context of repentance you cannot infer turning from sin from the word repent if you want to try and make that claim going back to the greek is going to count against you not for you so what's the difference you might wonder so let's finish this video by trying to grasp the real distinction really between metamelemia and metanoia if you really want one and a wider application of repentance is there really any actual difference between these words how would a native greek speaker understand the difference is the holy spirit being confusing by compelling the writers of the bible to use different words so i once asked a native greek speaker her opinion on the difference between metaneo and metamelemia and she actually had to think about it for quite a few seconds and struggled to give me an answer at first but she she scratched her head and thought about it and the best answer that she could come up with is that well maybe metamelemia is more like a change of action metaneo is more like a change of mind but the thing is we see the bible the opposite is also true metaneo being used as a change of action in some cases and metamelemia being used as a change of mind and i asked her if i could just use metaneo in an ordinary conversation like i was going to go to this supermarket but then i metaneoed and i went to that supermarket and she said well you could say this it would just sound a bit strong well it's just like in english if i said i was going to go to this supermarket i repented and went to another it just sounds weird there's nothing wrong with it so much because we don't really use repent in english in non-religious contexts most of the time with some rare exceptions i was talking to her about all this stuff with the modern bible translations and how people make these wild claims about the greek and she just asked me why don't they just ask a greek speaker good question but then they couldn't hyperspiritualize the definition of repentance could they now i've also asked another native greek who's a subscriber to this channel and he's very very kindly responded to some questions that i had about the greek in preparation for this video but even he was quite cautious and he said he's scared about telling people stuff about the greek language just in case he wasn't fully correct on what he said and he did some more lookups to get some more clarity for me so he found me this fantastic resource and basically it's a question posed on a greek learning and teaching website to ask questions about the greek language and the instructor answered this question as well as the questioner was also asking about which is more common now in modern greek but not used in the bible now the questioner was asking based on the modern pronunciation and spelling of so he actually asked about if we say it's the same word it's just it's changed over time so i'll post the link to that forum in the video description if you want to take a look but the instructor basically gave this answer she said that all of the following words mean regret but here are the differences metagnono is the word for regret in modern greek so it is most likely that if a greek speaker wants to convey regret this is the word they will probably use it's quite an ordinary word and doesn't carry particularly religious connotations metagnol the modern pronunciation of metaneo is an older form of the word but is used in more formal instances particularly in religious context just like the word repent and then metamelem is actually an archaic word that's no longer used in modern greek so you might say that perhaps metagnono has replaced it so you might think up to this point well okay there's somewhat interchangeability there fine but why did god have to confuse us by using these different words in the first place why couldn't the holy spirit move the new testament writers and speakers to just use one word or why couldn't Peter or Jesus say metamelem for the kingdom of heaven is at hand or metamelem and be baptized or something like that i submit to you that if they did say that it wouldn't make much difference because even after you show people that god repented and even after you show people how the septuagint uses both words interchangeably and even after you show people the same word in hebrew used for god and man and all this stuff they still insist that repentance means to turn from your sins anyway so you're wrong because i said so i casually glance through the concordance just to see how metaneo and metamelem are used linguistically so i noticed that very often metaneo is used as an intransitive verb where jesus or peter or john the baptist would say repent but with a few exceptions the immediate verses didn't always make it entirely obvious what is being repented of exactly for example repent and be baptized or repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand for verses such as these the verse itself doesn't make it very clear we need to understand the entire discourse more holistically which is what we've already done in this series as we've looked at these different passages about repentance so when we consider john's message of repentance for example when he says repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand that's not very obvious what's being repented of okay the kingdom is near i understand that bit john but what do i have to do exactly to repent what do i do john how do i repent so you really have to look at john's entire dialogue to understand what the message is about same thing when peter said repent and be baptized baptism doesn't really make it very clear how we repent exactly so we cannot ascertain the definition of repentance from the verse itself we have to look at peter's entire dialogue when jesus said repent or you shall all likewise perish okay fine i need to repent but repent of what jesus how do i repent what do i do where the context of repentance is more obvious and metaneo may even be used as a transitive verb it is typically given as a commandment so for example repent of this thy wickedness is both a commandment and a transitive verb so when jesus says repent he's not documenting something that happened he's giving a directive he's commanding something so metaneo is more appropriately used repent and believe the gospel repent or else i come quickly repent and do the first works metamellum is used in more miscellaneous ways where repentance is more of an observation rather than a commandment for example when judas repented or when paul did repent then did not repent of his letter to the carinthians but in the same way metaneo is a good foresight word i i repent from this day forward whereas metamellum is perhaps more suited to a hindsight word rather like regret in english for example i regret something that happened before so when the bible says judas repented of slaying innocent blood or paul repented then did not repent of his letter these are not commandments going forward nobody told judas to repent nobody told paul to repent or not repent the writers are just narrating what happened or didn't happen in the past so it's a narration or an observation rather than a commandment the new testament never uses metamellum as a forward pointing commandment or directive i'm not sure if the old testament septuagunt does because in those verses we looked at early they weren't really commanding anybody to repent so septuagunt i'm not really sure metamellum is also used as an intransitive verb but it is more obvious from the verse itself what is or is not being repented of unlike the intransitive metaneo we don't need to study the entire chapter or dialogue to understand the metamellum the verse is obvious as a standalone verse so for example the lord swear i will not repent you are a priest forever after the order of milk is a deck we know what the lord won't repent of he won't repent of Jesus being the priest after the order of milk is a deck we don't need to study the entire chapter of Hebrews to understand what God will not repent of and then when Paul said he did and then did not repent or regret of his letter to the Corinthians we don't need to read the whole book of the Corinthians or even the entire chapter to understand his message of repentance the verse is obvious in itself the idea that words are interchangeable but used in slightly different ways sometimes should not be some absurd or confusing concept to us the same thing happens in English and it's not confusing for anybody who has a competent grasp of the language it may be confusing or harder to grasp if you are not a fluent speaker of a given language so foreign speakers may struggle with some nuances so we saw that earlier metaneo comes from a change of mind metamellum comes from a change of care or concern consider these two statements in English you could say i don't mind if you want to go on a trip for three days i'll be okay on my own or you could say i don't care if you want to go on a trip for three days i'll be okay on my own both of these statements express apathy or passiveness towards a particular matter having said that though i don't mind usually indicates a neutral or positive response and is typically used in an approving way or a polite way whereas i don't care usually indicates a negative response and is typically used sarcastically or rudely or to dismiss the conversation altogether i don't mind can be used in a negative way depending on how you express it verbally but it is probably not preferable in written communication to express negativity i don't care can be used in a positive way depending on how you express it verbally but it is probably not preferable in written communication to express positivity depending on the context and circumstances sometimes they are perfectly interchangeable so even though mind and care are two different words and moderately interchangeable in that example there are situations where those words are definitely not interchangeable when you get on an elevator and the automatic voice says mind the doors it would sound a bit weird if it said care for the doors likewise child minding services and child care services may have different connotations some words could be used as an alternative but we just don't use them in certain ways because it would just sound weird to say it so i remember one time i was in italy and i remember a bus ticket vending machine and it had a button that said more selections it did make sense and i could understand it but in english we would normally say more options so the translation wasn't wrong it just sounded weird i looked up metaneo and metamellame and metaneono on the greek dictionary and ran my browser's translator on each word separately it converted each word like for like in the following ways metano or metaneo is repent metamellame is repent metaneono is regret and these are the verbs and then the nouns metanoia is repentance and metamellia is remorse in english there are subtle differences between them in so far as regret simply means that you wish you hadn't done something but doesn't have to convey a strong emotional feeling necessarily remorse often includes regret but typically means to have more guilty feelings and probably an intention not to repeat said action repent is used almost exclusively in religious discourse Christians cannot even agree amongst themselves what it means nevertheless it's fair to say that if you repent of hurting your brother or sister in christ you'll probably regret it too and if you have really really hurt them you may also hopefully feel remorseful and will commit to repent and not do it to them again now in english remorse isn't a verb you can say i regret or i repent but you can't really say i remorse because it's only a noun not a verb so to express remorse as a verb you would actually have to say i regret so they're only interchangeable as nouns and concerning intransitive verbs and commandments rather like metamellomy regret doesn't operate very well as a standalone instruction in english so if you said regret for the kingdom of heaven is at hand or regret and be baptized it sounds weird because people would be thinking well regret of what what am i supposed to be regretful about so repent operates better as a standalone verb and as a commandment just as met in the odos in greek so in conclusion what can we learn from this in a strange roundabout way this was a lesson to teach you what you apparently did not need to be taught words can be interchangeable with other words yet certain words are more appropriate than others in certain contexts we don't actually need to go back to the greek because we somehow can't figure it out in english rather if you go back to the greek then you will come across the exact same problem in english because the language itself is not the problem faulty interpretation is the problem problem is that christians dress up sensationalize and embellish the definition of repentance to turn it into something that it's not in any language in the english-speaking world you will hear charles spurgeon and tutulium wannabes making fanciful speeches like repentance is the vomit of the soul a complete conversion of man's in a being in the greek-speaking world we have orthodox priests making fanciful statements like metanoia is a transformation of the man into a christ consciousness and a cleansing of the soul in confession in god's spiritual hospital yes i have heard these terms used statements like these are so poetic and fluffy and heavenly minded but it's really just word salad long fancy words being strung together not forming any meaningful or practical sentence that i can actually act upon and they're not quoting or referring to the bible when they say these things they're just trying to copy charles spurgeon or they're trying to copy tutulium or they're just trying to copy some other relic from the past who did the exact same thing and they want to be seen of men with the great swelling words now i've never done this in this series before but as we draw this video to a close i just want to thank a brother in christ who is one of my subscribers and a native greek speaker so apologies for pronunciation but i want to thank brother steven chiagia daikis um because i hope you don't mind being mentioned but obviously your youtube handle is public so i you know i'd assumed that you'd be okay with it i wanted to thank this person and acknowledge him publicly because he has been very kind in answering some questions i had while preparing for this video and he's given me some great resources to look up a bit more information about the greek language so if you've listened this far brother i just want to thank you very much for your help and god bless this is no nonsense christianity reminding you that nowhere in the bible does it say the count of your sins to be saved