Agape vs. Phileo Love: Are agape and phileo love synonymous in Greek? John 3: 19 & John 12: 43 use agape for loving darkness and men's praise, respectively, while John 5: 20 uses phileo to describe the Father's love for the Son.

Q&A question: Agape vs. Phileo Love

9..Other Greek manuscripts that weigh in on this

The term "abomination" in both Hebrew and Greek consistently refers to an idol or false object of worship, and "desolation" relates to the temple being made spiritually or physically desolate. The phrase "standing where it should not be" — and Matthew's "in the holy place" — point to an idol being set up inside the temple precincts.

Linguistic and textual analysis of the phrase "abomination of desolation"

The literary alliteration of Hebrews 1:1 in Greek (poly-meros, poly-tropos, patrasin, prophetais — all P-sounds) signals this is high-level, carefully crafted Greek prose. God speaking "in many times and many ways" through the prophets contrasts with the singular, final word through the Son — a deliberate narrowing funnel from diverse OT revelation to the one person of Jesus.

Greek alliteration in Hebrews 1:1; the "many-to-one" funnel structure of divine revelation