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different meaning to the passage: “Who
$
He was subsisting in the essential form of
God, did not regard His being on an equality of glory and majesty with God as a prize
and a treasure to be held fast,
$
emptied himself thereof.”
After reviewing the arguments
and
Gifford takes the latter to be the right
meaning, as conveying the purpose of the passage “to set forth Christ as the supreme
example of humility and self-renunciation.”
Note:
For
$
(
, “down,” and
$
, see No. 1), translated “rob (you)
of your prize,” Col. 2:18, see
BEGUILE
, Note.
For
PROBATION,
RV
in
Rom. 5:4
, see
EXPERIENCE
, No. 2
PROCEED
1.
$
(
#
$ "
, 1607), “to go forth,” is translated “to proceed out of”
in Matt. 4:4; 15:11,
RV
; 15:18; Mark 7:15,
RV
; 7:20,
RV
; 7:21; 7:23,
RV
; Luke 4:22; John
15:26; Eph. 4:29; Rev. 1:16,
RV
; 4:5; 9:17, 18,
RV
(
KJV
, “issued”); 11:5; 19:15,
RV
; 19:21,
KJV
(
RV
, “came forth”); 22:1. See
COME
, No. 33,
GO
,
Note
(1).
2.
@
(
# !$
, 1831) is translated “proceed” in Matt. 15:19,
KJV
(
RV
,
“come forth”); John 8:42,
RV
, “came forth”; Jas. 3:10. The verb “to proceed” is not so
suitable. See
COME
, No. 3.
3.
(
$
, 4298), lit., “to cut forward (a way),” is translated “will
proceed” in 2 Tim. 2:16,
RV
(
KJV
, “will increase”) and “shall proceed” (both versions) in
3:9. See
INCREASE
.
4.
(
$ &
, 4369), “to put to, to add,” is translated “proceeded” in
Acts 12:3 (a Hebraism). See
ADD
, No. 2.
PROCLAIM
1.
$
(
$"
, 2784) is translated “to proclaim” in the
RV
, for
KJV
, “to
preach,” in Matt. 10:27; Luke 4:19; Acts 8:5; 9:20. See
PREACH
, No. 2.
2.
(
!
, 2605), “to declare, proclaim,” is translated “to proclaim”
in the
RV
, for
KJV
, to “show,” in Acts 16:17; 26:23; 1 Cor. 11:26, where the verb makes
clear that the partaking of the elements at the Lord’s Supper is a “proclamation” (an
evangel) of the Lord’s death; in Rom. 1:8, for
KJV
, “spoken of”; in 1 Cor. 2:1, for
KJV
,
“declaring.” See also
PREACH
,
Note
(2), and
DECLARE
, A, No. 4.
3.
(
$ $!
, 4135), “to bring in full measure” (
, “full,”
,
“to bring”), hence, “to fulfill, accomplish,” is translated “might be fully proclaimed,” in 2
Tim. 4:17,
RV
, with
$
, marg., “proclamation” (
KJV
“… known”). See
ASSURE
, B,
No. 2,
BELIEVE
, C,
Note
(4),
FULFILL
, No. 6,
KNOW
,
Note
(2),
PERSUADE
, No. 2,
Note
,
PROOF
.
PROCONSUL
$
(
"
, 446), from
, “instead of,” and
$
, “supreme,”
denotes “a consul, one acting in place of a consul, a proconsul, the governor of a
senatorial province” (i.e., one which had no standing army). The “proconsuls” were of
two classes, (a) exconsuls, the rulers of the provinces of Asia and Africa, who were