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3.
(
$
!
, 3891), “to transgress law” (
, “contrary to,” and
), is used in the present participle in Acts 23:3, and translated “contrary to the
law,” lit., “transgressing the law.”¶
C. Adjectives.
1.
(
, 3544) denotes “relating to law”; in Titus 3:9 it is translated
“about the law,” describing “fightings” (
KJV
, “strivings”); see
LAWYER
.
2.
(
+
, 1772), (a) “lawful, legal,” lit., “in law” ( , “in,” and
),
or strictly, “what is within the range of law,” is translated “lawful” in Acts 19:39,
KJV
(
RV
, “regular”), of the legal tribunals in Ephesus; (b) “under law” (
RV
), in relation to
Christ, 1 Cor. 9:21, where it is contrasted with
(see No. 3 below); the word as
used by the apostle suggests not merely the condition of being under “law,” but the
intimacy of a relation established in the loyalty of a will devoted to his Master. See
LAWFUL
.
3.
(
/
, 459) signifies “without law” ( , negative) and has this meaning
in 1 Cor. 9:21 (four times). See
LAWLESS
,
TRANSGRESSOR
,
UNLAWFUL
,
WICKED
.
D. Adverb.
(
, 460), “without law” (the adverbial form of C, No. 3), is used in
Rom. 2:12 (twice), where “(have sinned) without law” means in the absence of some
specifically revealed “law,” like the “law” of Sinai; “(shall perish) without law”
predicates that the absence of such a “law” will not prevent their doom; the “law” of
conscience is not in view here. The succeeding phrase “under law” is lit., “in law,” not
the same as the adjective
(C, No. 2), but two distinct words.¶
LAWFUL, LAWFULLY
A. Verb.
@
(
+
, 1832), an impersonal verb, signifying “it is permitted, it is lawful” (or
interrogatively, “is it lawful?”), occurs most frequently in the synoptic Gospels and the
Acts; elsewhere in John 5:10; 18:31; 1 Cor. 6:12; 10:23; 2 Cor. 12:4; in Acts 2:29, it is
rendered “let me (speak),” lit., “it being permitted”; in the
KJV
of 8:37, “thou mayest,”
lit., “it is permitted;” 16:21; in 21:37, “may I,” lit., “is it permitted?” See
LET
,
MAY
.
Note:
For
, see C, No. 2, (under
LAW
).
B. Adverb.
(
&
, 3545), “lawfully,” is used in 1 Tim. 1:8, “the Law is good, if a
man use it lawfully,” i.e., agreeably to its design; the meaning here is that, while no one
can be justified or obtain eternal life through its instrumentality, the believer is to have it
in his heart and to fulfill its requirements; walking “not after the flesh but after the spirit,”
Rom. 8:4, he will “use it lawfully.” In 2 Tim. 2:5 it is used of contending in the games
and adhering to the rules.¶
LAWGIVER
(
!
, 3550), “a lawgiver” (see
LAW
, A, No. 2, and B, No. 1),
occurs in Jas. 4:12, of God, as the sole “Lawgiver”; therefore, to criticize the Law is to
presume to take His place, with the presumption of enacting a better law.¶