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(
$ &
, 4047), (a) “preservation,” (b) “acquiring or gaining
something,” is used in this latter sense in Heb. 10:39, translated “saving” (
RV
marg.,
“gaining”); the reference here is to salvation in its completeness. See
OBTAIN
,
POSSESSION
.
Note:
In Heb. 11:7
is rendered saving. See
SALVATION
.
SAVING (Preposition)
(
$
, 3924), used as a preposition, denotes “saving,” Matt. 5:32 (in
some mss., 19:9). See
EXCEPT
.¶
Note:
In Luke 4:27 and Rev. 2:17,
KJV
,
(lit., “if not”), is translated “saving”
(
RV
, “but only” and “but”).
SAVIOR
(
)$
, 4990), “a savior, deliverer, preserver,” is used (a) of God, Luke 1:47; 1
Tim. 1:1; 2:3; 4:10 (in the sense of “preserver,” since He gives “to all life and breath and
all things”); Titus 1:3; 2:10; 3:4; Jude 25; (b) of Christ, Luke 2:11; John 4:42; Acts 5:31;
13:23 (of Israel); Eph. 5:23 (the sustainer and preserver of the church, His “body”); Phil.
3:20 (at His return to receive the Church to Himself); 2 Tim. 1:10 (with reference to His
incarnation, “the days of His flesh”); Titus 1:4 (a title shared, in the context, with God the
Father); 2:13,
RV
, “our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,” the pronoun “our,” at the
beginning of the whole clause, includes all the titles; Titus 3:6; 2 Pet. 1:1, “our God and
Savior Jesus Christ;
RV
, where the pronoun “our,” coming immediately in connection
with “God,” involves the inclusion of both titles as referring to Christ, just as in the
parallel in v. 11, “our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (
KJV
and
RV
); these passages are
therefore a testimony to His deity; 2 Pet. 2:20; 3:2, 18; 1 John 4:14.¶
SAVOR (Noun and Verb)
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
' &
, 2175), “fragrance” (
$
, “well,”
, “to smell”), is used
metaphorically (a) of those who in the testimony of the gospel are to God “a sweet savor
of Christ,” 2 Cor. 2:15; (b) of the giving up of His life by Christ for us, an offering and a
sacrifice to God for an odor (
, see No. 2) of “a sweet smell,” Eph. 5:2,
RV
[
KJV
, “a
sweet smelling (savor)”]; (c) of material assistance sent to Paul from the church at
Philippi “(an odor) of a sweet smell,” Phil. 4:18. In all three instances the fragrance is
that which ascends to God through the person, and as a result of the sacrifice, of Christ.¶
2.
(
A )
, 3744), “a smell, odor” (from
, “to smell”; Eng., “ozone”), is
translated “odor” in John 12:3; it is used elsewhere in connection with No. 1, in the three
passages mentioned, as of an odor accompanying an acceptable sacrifice; in 2 Cor. 2:14,
16 (twice), of the “savor” of the knowledge of Christ through Gospel testimony, in the
case of the perishing “a savor from death unto death,” as of that which arises from what is
dead (the spiritual condition of the unregenerate); in the case of the saved “a savor from
life unto life,” as from that which arises from what is instinct with life (the spiritual
condition of the regenerate); in Eph. 5:2, “a (sweetsmelling) savor”; in Phil. 4:18, “an
odor (of a sweet smell)”; cf. No. 1. See
ODOR
.¶
B. Verb.