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to the world, written by the apostle and his fellow missionaries, through their ministry of
the gospel and the consequent change in the lives of the converts, an epistle “known and
read of all men.” For other instances of
see, e.g., Rom. 12:3,
$
;
1 Cor. 2:13, 14,
$
;
2 Thess. 3:11,
, and
;
1 Cor. 7:31,
and
;
11:31,
and
;
12:2,
and
;
Phil. 3:2, 3,
and
!
B. Noun.
(
1
, 320) in nonbiblical Greek denoted “recognition” or “a
survey” (the latter found in the papyri); then, “reading”; in the NT the public “reading” of
Scripture, Acts 13:15; 2 Cor. 3:14; 1 Tim. 4:13, where the context makes clear that the
reference is to the care required in reading the Scriptures to a company, a duty ever
requiring the exhortation “take heed.” Later, readers in churches were called
.¶
In the Sept, Neh. 8:8.¶
READINESS
1.
$
(
$ &
, 4288), “eagerness, willingness, readiness” ( , “forward,”
$
, “mind, disposition,” akin to
$
, READY, A, No. 2), is translated
“readiness of mind” in Acts 17:11, “readiness” in 2 Cor. 8:11; in v. 12,
RV
(
KJV
, “a
willing mind”); in v. 19,
RV
“(our) readiness,”
KJV
, “(your) ready mind”; in 9:2,
RV
,
“readiness” (
KJV
, “forwardness of … mind”; see
FORWARDNESS
,
Note
(4).¶
2.
(
M
, 2092), an adjective (see
READY
, A, No. 1), is used with
,
“to have,” and , “in,” idiomatically, as a noun in 2 Cor. 10:6,
RV
, “being in readiness”
(
KJV
, “having in readiness”), of the apostle’s aim for the church to be obedient to Christ.
Cf. READY, C.
READY
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
M
, 2092), “prepared, ready” (akin to
, “preparation”), is
used (a) of persons, Matt. 24:44; 25:10; Luke 12:40; 22:33; Acts 23:15, 21 (for 2 Cor.
10:6, see above); Titus 3:1; 1 Pet. 3:15; (b) of things, Matt. 22:4 (2nd part), 8; Mark
14:15,
RV
, “ready” (
KJV
, “prepared”); Luke 14:17; John 7:6; 2 Cor. 9:5; 10:16,
RV
,
“things ready” (
KJV
, “things made ready”); 1 Pet. 1:5. See
PREPARE
, No. 5,
Note
(2).¶
2.
$
(
$
, 4289), “predisposed, willing” (akin to
$
, see
READINESS
), is translated “ready” in Rom. 1:15, expressive of willingness, eagerness: in
Mark 14:38,
RV
, “willing” (
KJV
, “ready”); in Matt. 26:41. “willing.” See
WILLING
.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
!
, 3195), “to be about to,” is translated “to be ready” in 2 Pet. 1:12,
RV
, where the future indicates that the apostle will be prepared, as in the past and the
present, to remind his readers of the truths they know (some mss. have
$
, “I
will not be negligent,”
KJV
; cf., however, v. 15. Field, in
:
7
:
, suggests that the true reading is
, the future of
, “to be a care, or an object