Article January 30, 1965 Issue

WORDS OF CURRENT INTEREST

[The words in this issue are related to the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly designated to be read in Christian Science churches on February 7, 1965.]

Parcel of ground (John 4:5)

The single Greek word represented by this phrase is chorion, meaning literally "a place"; but often an enclosed piece of land; a field. As the word "parcel" is used in English with regard to land, it is described as a continuous tract or plot of land in one possession, no part of which is separated from the rest by intervening land in other possession: a tract or plot of land whose boundaries are readily ascertainable by natural or artificial monuments or markers.

Your fathers dwelt on the OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD (Josh. 24:2; cf. verses 3 and 14)

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