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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">I leave town for a week and the whole world turns to Spock. Please let me comment on two points:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">1.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Oversight”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">When the Wolfman uses the word <I>oversight</I> in the minutes, he does so in a biblical context. Therefore we must turn to the Scriptures for our definition, or as the old bumper sticker said, “The Bible has the answer.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">First Peter 5:2 says, “Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">Our English word <I>oversight</I> comes from the Greek word <I>episkopeo,</I> the same word from which we get <I>Episcopalian.</I> According to <I>Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words</I>, the word <I>episkopeo</I> means</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=left><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">“to look upon,” “exercising the oversight”; “exercising” is the right rendering; the word does not imply the entrance upon such responsibility, but the fulfillment of it. It is not a matter of assuming a position, but of the discharge of the duties. The word is found elsewhere in Heb. 12:15, “looking carefully.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">For the etymologists on this list, <I>episkopeo</I> is a verb taken from the noun <I>episkopees,</I> which the Bible translates “bishop,” hence the Episcopalian connection. <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">The <I>International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</I> says of the word <I>bishop:</I> “Their office is defined as ‘ruling’ (Rom. 12:8), ‘overseeing’ (Acts 20:17, 28; 1 Pet. 5:2), caring for the flock of God (Acts 20:28).”</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman"><I>Vincent’s Word Studies of the New Testament</I> defines the word <I>episkopees</I> as “‘Superintendent, overseer’ . . . The fundamental idea of the word is ‘overseeing.’” And for those of you who haven’t wet your pants yet, he goes on to say, “The prevailing Old Testament sense of <I>episkopee</I> is ‘visitation’ for punishment, inquisition, or numbering.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT face="times new roman">2. Plagiarism<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="times new roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Staying with our theme, the word <I>plagiary</I> comes from the </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt">Latin <I>plagiârius,</I> or kidnapper; and the word “plagiarist” comes from <I>plagium,</I> or kidnapping, which pretty much says it all. Theft, tax evasion, wholesale lying, manstealing, kidnapping, plagiarism—NSA’s senior felon of theology has quite the résumé.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="times new roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt">But worse yet, if we connect the final dot, we must conclude that the minutes really say, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">“The Wolfman reported that Paul Kimmell, in his role as County Commissioner, is open to oversight from <I>kidnappers</I> on certain issues.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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