What Does Huio Thesia Mean?

The word Huio thesia in Paul's day means adoption. There is a whole host of linguistic evidence that use this term unambiguously to connote adopted sonship and not just sonship more generally. In Greco-Roman adoption, you don't adopt vulnerable children like we tend to think of adoption as doing. And so adoption at Michael Pepperd says is not to ensure the future of the son, but thefuture of the father.