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2.
(
$ &
, 5537), “to give divine admonition, instruction,
revelation,” is translated “it had been revealed,” in Luke 2:26. See
ADMONITION
, B, No. 3,
CALL
.
REVELATION
$
(
1
, 602), “an uncovering” (akin to
$
; see above), “is
used in the NT of (a) the drawing away by Christ of the veil of darkness covering the
Gentiles, Luke 2:32; cf. Isa. 25:7; (b) ‘the mystery,’ the purpose of God in this age, Rom.
16:25; Eph. 3:3; (c) the communication of the knowledge of God to the soul, Eph. 1:17;
(d) an expression of the mind of God for the instruction of the church, 1 Cor. 14:6, 26, for
the instruction of the Apostle Paul, 2 Cor. 12:1, 7; Gal. 1:12, and for his guidance, Gal.
2:2; (e) the Lord Jesus Christ, to the saints at His Parousia, 1 Cor. 1:7,
RV
(
KJV
,
‘coming’); 1 Pet. 1:7,
RV
(
KJV
, ‘appearing’), 13; 4:13; (f) the Lord Jesus Christ when He
comes to dispense the judgments of God, 2 Thess. 1:7; cf. Rom. 2:5; (g) the saints, to the
creation, in association with Christ in His glorious reign, Rom. 8:19,
RV
, ‘revealing’ (
KJV
,
‘manifestation’); (h) the symbolic forecast of the final judgments of God, Rev. 1:1 (hence
the Greek title of the book, transliterated ‘Apocalypse’ and translated ‘Revelation’).”*
See
APPEARING
,
COMING
,
LIGHTEN
, B, Note,
MANIFESTATION
.¶
REVEL, REVELING
1.
$
(
$ )
, 5172), “luxuriousness, daintiness, reveling,” is translated freely by
the verb “to revel” in 2 Pet. 2:13,
RV
(
KJV
, “to riot”), lit., “counting reveling in the
daytime a pleasure.” In Luke 7:25 it is used with , “in,” and translated “delicately.” See
DELICATELY
,
RIOT
.¶
2.
(
, 2970), “a revel, carousal,” the concomitant and consequence of
drunkenness, is used in the plural, Rom. 13:13, translated by the singular,
RV
, “reveling”
(
KJV
, “rioting”); Gal. 5:21 and 1 Pet. 4:3, “revelings.” See
RIOT
.¶
Note:
For
$
, 2 Pet. 2:13,
RV
, “to revel,” see
SPORTING
.
For
REVENGE and REVENGER
see
AVENGE
and
AVENGER
REVERENCE (Noun and Verb)
A. Verbs.
1.
(
#
$!
, 1788), lit., “to turn in” (i.e., upon oneself), “to put to shame,”
denotes, when used in the passive voice, “to feel respect for, to show deference to, to
reverence,” Matt. 21:37; Mark 12:6; Luke 20:13; Heb. 12:9. See
ASHAMED
, A, No. 4,
REGARD
.
* From
Notes on Thessalonians,
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 228, 229.
¶ Indicates that all the NT occurrences of the Greek word under consideration are
mentioned under the heading or sub-heading.