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 | | kon-ver-sa'-shun (anastrophe, homilia): This word is another illustration of the changes which time makes in a living language. |
 | | The modern sense of the term is mutual talk, colloquy, but in the King James Version it never means that, but always behavior, conduct. |
 | | But the usual Greek word is anastrophe, "a turning up and down," possibly due to the fact, as Hatch again avers, that life in the bustling streets of Athens and Rome gave rise to the conception of life as quick motion to and fro. |
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