"The terms 'world' and 'earth' have completely different meanings. Our Lord certainly made the distinction between 'world' and 'earth' when he said, "I have overcome the world" in John 16:33. It would be meaningless if he had said, "I have overcome the earth."

When you see the term "world" in scripture, it very rarely refers to the "earth." The "earth" (land, region, territory, country) is usually translated from Greek word #1093, ge. But "world" does not usually refer to any physical land, it mostly refers to the ungodly.

A lot of people aren't aware of this, but the eptimology of the term "world" comes from the Old English word "werold." This comes from an Old High German word, "Weralt." And this comes from an early West Germanic composition of two words: "wera" which means "man," and the Indo-European base "alth" which comes from the Latin "altus", meaning "old."

Thus, the meaning of the ancient word World is: "The Old Man." (Old English word is "werold." Broken down individually, "were" means man, and "old" means old).

When we are talking about God's Kingdom, we are talking about the new life, the new man, those who are born again; and when we talk about the world, we are talking about the old life, the old man, those who are not born again."

Вот так то, господа...
Оказывается мой ник обладает не только красивым звучанием, но и глубоким метафизическим смыслом...