Does "Until" Mean What You Think It Means? (Matthew 1:25)

[beechan]

Yes it does mean that! You are just so inculcated in your Catholic tradition that you have unconsciously redefined the word until.

Example: we did not go outside until it stopped raining. Based on that sentence- they did go outside. There is not modifier saying they changed their mind or action, so the statement stands- Once it stopped raining they went outside!

Then let see another example from the scripture:
Deuteronomy 34:6:
“No one knows his [Moses’] burial place until(ἕως (heōs) this day.”

Does it mean that 'on this day' we know the burial place of Moses?
'No one knows the burial place of Moses' persists with the use of word 'until (heos)'!


Give you one more example:
Matthew 28:20: “I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Clearly, the 'until' does not imply He will leave afterward.

So, what @Moonwood said in #1 is correct.

In Koine Greek and throughout Scripture, heos does not inherently imply that the opposite condition began afterward.