An expression found mostly in older literature, and especially in the study of the Gospels, meaning "the actual words" of Jesus. The interest in the ipssisma verba of Jesus is nowhere better seen in the so-called "Red Letter Bibles," in which the words of Jesus are highlighted in red. The expression is pronounced ip-sis-i-ma ver-ba, and is Latin in origin.
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