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3.
(
&
, 4080), how large, is used of letters of the alphabet, characters in
writing, Gal. 6:11, “with how large (letters)”; it is said of personal greatness in Heb. 7:4.
See
GREAT
, No. 5.¶
LASCIVIOUS, LASCIVIOUSNESS
(
!
, 766) denotes “excess, licentiousness, absence of restraint,
indecency, wantonness”; “lasciviousness” in Mark 7:22, one of the evils that proceed
from the heart; in 2 Cor. 12:21, one of the evils of which some in the church at Corinth
had been guilty; in Gal. 5:19, classed among the works of the flesh; in Eph. 4:19, among
the sins of the unregenerate who are “past feeling”; so in 1 Pet. 4:3; in Jude 4, of that into
which the grace of God had been turned by ungodly men; it is translated “wantonness” in
Rom. 13:13, one of the sins against which believers are warned; in 2 Pet. 2:2, according
to the best mss., “lascivious (doings),”
RV
(the
KJV
“pernicious ways” follows those texts
which have
); in v. 7,
RV
, “lascivious (life),”
KJV
, “filthy (conversation),” of the
people of Sodom and Gomorrah; in 2:18,
RV
, “lasciviousness” (
KJV
, “wantonness”),
practiced by the same persons as mentioned in Jude. The prominent idea is shameless
conduct. Some have derived the word from , negative, and
, “a city in Pisidia.”
Others, with similar improbability, trace it to , negative, and
, or
, “to
charm.” See
WANTONNESS
.¶
LAST
A. Adjective.
(
+
, 2078), “last, utmost, extreme,” is used (a) of place, e.g., Luke
14:9, 10, “lowest;” Acts 1:8 and 13:47, “uttermost part;” (b) of rank, e.g., Mark 9:35; (c)
of time, relating either to persons or things, e.g., Matt. 5:26, “the last (farthing),”
RV
(
KJV
,
“uttermost”); Matt. 20:8, 12, 14; Mark 12:6, 22; 1 Cor. 4:9, of apostles as “last” in the
program of a spectacular display; 1 Cor. 15:45, “the last Adam”; Rev. 2:19; of the “last”
state of persons, Matt. 12:45, neuter plural, lit., “the last (things)”; so Luke 11:26; 2 Pet.
2:20,
RV
, “the last state” (
KJV
, “the latter end”); of Christ as the Eternal One, Rev. 1:17
(in some mss. v. 11); 2:8; 22:13; in eschatological phrases as follows: (a) “the last day,” a
comprehensive term including both the time of the resurrection of the redeemed, John
6:39, 40, 44, 54 and 11:24, and the ulterior time of the judgment of the unregenerate, at
the Great White Throne, John 12:48; (b) “the last days,” Acts 2:17, a period relative to
the supernatural manifestation of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and the resumption of the
divine interpositions in the affairs of the world at the end of the present age, before “the
great and notable Day of the Lord,” which will usher in the messianic kingdom; (c) in 2
Tim. 3:1, “the last days” refers to the close of the present age of world conditions; (d) in
Jas. 5:3, the phrase “in the last days” (
RV
) refers both to the period preceding the Roman
overthrow of the city and the land in A.D. 70, and to the closing part of the age in
consummating acts of gentile persecution including “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (cf.
verses 7, 8); (e) in 1 Pet. 1:5, “the last time” refers to the time of the Lord’s second
advent; (f) in 1 John 2:18,“the last hour” (
RV
) and, in Jude 18, “the last time” signify the
present age previous to the Second Advent.
Notes:
(1) In Heb. 1:2,
RV
, “at the end of these days” (
KJV
, “in these last days”), the
reference is to the close of the period of the testimony of the prophets under the Law,
terminating with the presence of Christ and His redemptive sacrifice and its effects, the