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“raising” up a person to occupy a place in the midst of a nation, said of Christ, Acts 3:26;
7:37; 13:33,
RV
, “raised up Jesus,” not here by resurrection from the dead, as the
superfluous “again” of the
KJV
would suggest; this is confirmed by the latter part of the
verse, which explains the “raising” up as being by way of His incarnation, and by the
contrast in v. 34, where stress is laid upon His being “raised” from the dead, the same
verb being used: (d) of “raising” up seed, Matt. 22:24; (e) of being “raised” from natural
sleep, Matt. 1:24,
KJV
, “being raised” (
RV
, “arose”); here some mss. have
, “to
arouse completely”; see
ARISE
, No. 4.
Note:
For the contrast between No. 1 and No. 2 see
ARISE
, No. 3 (parag. 2).
3.
@
(
# &$
, 1825), , “out of,” and No. 1, is used (a) of the “resurrection”
of believers, 1 Cor. 6:14 [2nd part; see No. 1 (a) for the 1st part]; (b) of “raising” a person
to public position, Rom. 9:17, “did I raise thee up,”
RV
, said of Pharaoh.¶
4.
@
(
#
&
, 1817), , “out of,” and No. 2, is used of “raising” up
seed, Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28; elsewhere, Acts 15:5, “to rise up.” See
RISE
.¶
5.
$
(
&$
, 4891), “to raise together” (
$
, “with,” and No. 1), is used
of the believer’s spiritual resurrection with Christ. Eph. 2:6; passive voice in Col. 2:12,
RV
, “ye were … raised (with Him),”
KJV
, “ye are risen”; so 3:1. See
RISE
.
Notes:
(1) In Acts 13:50,
KJV
,
, “to rouse up, excite,” is translated “raised”
(
RV
, “stirred up,” as in
KJV
and
RV
in 14:2). (2) In Acts 24:12,
, to make, is used
With
, a collection of people, and translated “stirring up (a crowd),”
RV
, lit.,
‘making a collection (of a crowd)’; some mss. have
$
, a riotous throng,
KJV
,
“raising up (the people).” (3) In Heb. 11:35,
KJV
, the noun
, a resurrection,
preceded by
@
(i.e., ), “out of, or by,” instrumental, is translated “raised to life again”
(a paraphrase),
RV
, “by a resurrection.”
For
RAN
see
RUN
RANKS
(
$ 1
, 4237), “a garden bed or plot” (probably from
, “a leek”), is
used metaphorically in Mark 6:40 of “ranks” of persons arranged in orderly groups.
RANSOM
1.
$
(
)
, 3383), lit., “a means of loosing” (from
$
, “to loose”), occurs
frequently in the Sept., where it is always used to signify “equivalence.” Thus it is used
of the “ransom” for a life, e.g., Exod. 21:30, of the redemption price of a slave, e.g., Lev.
19:20, of land, 25:24, of the price of a captive, Isa. 45:13. In the NT it occurs in Matt.
20:28 and Mark 10:45, where it is used of Christ’s gift of Himself as “a ransom for
many.” Some interpreters have regarded the “ransom” price as being paid to Satan;
others, to an impersonal power such as death, or evil, or “that ultimate necessity which
has made the whole course of things what it has been.” Such ideas are largely conjectural,
the result of an attempt to press the details of certain Old Testament illustrations beyond
the actual statements of New Testament doctrines.
That Christ gave up His life in expiatory sacrifice under God’s judgment upon sin and
thus provided a “ransom” whereby those who receive Him on this ground obtain