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Malakoi   Arsenokotai
 

The fifth and sixth words are Greek and attributed to Paul of Tarsus. The first is "Malakoi" (Corinthians 6:9-10, King James version), meaning soft or effeminate, and the second "Arsenokotai", (Letter to the Corinthians, Letter to Timothy), meaning active male prostitute as well as abusers and defilers of men. They have strong linkages to the Greek "Kinodai" and Roman "Cinaedi" with the same meanings. The second of these is considered to be Paul's own invention in his campaign to eradicate Paganism and establish the Christian Church. Biblical scholars seeking to excuse Paul of homophobia in his condemnatory use of the words claim that they never refer to homosexuals as a distinct class, but regardless of this when Paul listed, in Corinthians 1, the 10 "sins" which would exclude the "sinner" from "heaven", he clearly states three as being firstly, those homosexuals who practice active penetrative anal sex, secondly those homosexuals who passive penetrative anal sex and thirdly idolaters, including amongst this category the male temple prostitutes well-known in his historical period

     
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