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while here below, was “the Son of Man, which is in Heaven,” John 3:13. As the “Son of
Man” He must be appropriated spiritually as a condition of possessing eternal life, John
6:53. In His death, as in His life, the glory of His Manhood was displayed in the absolute
obedience and submission to the will of the Father (12:23; 13:31), and, in view of this, all
judgment has been committed to Him, who will judge in full understanding
experimentally of human conditions, sin apart, and will exercise the judgment as sharing
the nature of those judged, John 5:22, 27. Not only is He man, but He is “Son of Man,”
not by human generation but, according to the Semitic usage of the expression, partaking
of the characteristics (sin apart) of manhood belonging to the category of mankind. Twice
in the Apocalypse, 1:13 and 14:14, He is described as “One like unto a Son of man,”
RV
(
KJV
, “… the Son of Man”), cf. Dan. 7:13. He who was thus seen was indeed the “Son of
Man,” but the absence of the article in the original serves to stress what morally
characterizes Him as such. Accordingly in these passages He is revealed, not as the
Person known by the title, but as the One who is qualified to act as the Judge of all men.
He is the same Person as in the days of His flesh, still continuing His humanity with His
Deity. The phrase “like unto” serves to distinguish Him as there seen in His glory and
majesty in contrast to the days of His humiliation.
SONG
(
^ )
, 5603), “an ode, song,” is always used in the NT (as in the Sept.), in praise
of God or Christ; in Eph. 5:19 and Col. 3:16 the adjective “spiritual” is added, because
the word in itself is generic and might be used of songs anything but spiritual; in Rev. 5:9
and 14:3 (1st part) the descriptive word is “new” (
, “new,” in reference to
character and form: see
NEW
), a “song,” the significance of which was confined to those
mentioned (v. 3, and 2nd part); in 15:3 (twice), “the song of Moses … and the song of the
Lamb,” the former as celebrating the deliverance of God’s people by His power, the latter
as celebrating redemption by atoning sacrifice.¶
For
SOON
see
IMMEDIATELY
, No. 1 and
QUICKLY
, No. 3.
For
AS SOON AS
see
†
, p. 1
For
SOONER
see
QUICKLY
, No. 2
SOOTHSAYING
$
(
"
, 3132), “to divine, practice divination” (from
, “a
seer, diviner”), occurs in Acts 16:16.¶ The word is allied to
, “to rave,” and
, “fury” displayed by those who were possessed by the evil spirit (represented by
the pagan god or goddess) while delivering their oracular messages. Trench (
- !
Sec.vi)
draws a distinction between this verb and
$
, not only as to their meanings, but
as to the fact of the single occurrence of
$
in the NT, contrasted with the
frequency of
$
, exemplifying the avoidance by NT writers of words the
employment of which “would tend to break down the distinction between heathenism and
revealed religion.”
SOP