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contrasted with laxity and indifference. All believers will live together with Christ from
the time of the Rapture described in ch. 4; for all have spiritual life now, though their
spiritual condition and attainment vary considerably. Those who are lax and fail to be
watchful will suffer loss (1 Cor. 3:15; 9:27; 2 Cor. 5:10, e.g.), but the apostle is not here
dealing with that aspect of the subject. What he does make clear is that the Rapture of
believers at the second coming of Christ will depend solely on the death of Christ for
them, and not upon their spiritual condition. The Rapture is not a matter of reward, but of
salvation. See
WATCH
.
WALK
1.
(
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!
, 4043) is used (a) physically, in the Synoptic Gospels
(except Mark 7:5); always in the Acts except in 21:21; never in the Pauline Epistles, nor
in those of John; (b) figuratively, “signifying the whole round of the activities of the
individual life, whether of the unregenerate, Eph. 4:17, or of the believer, 1 Cor. 7:17;
Col. 2:6. It is applied to the observance of religious ordinances, Acts 21:21; Heb. 13:9,
marg., as well as to moral conduct. The Christian is to walk in newness of life, Rom. 6:4,
after the spirit, 8:4, in honesty, 13:13, by faith, 2 Cor. 5:7, in good works, Eph. 2:10, in
love, 5:2, in wisdom, Col. 4:5, in truth, 2 John 4, after the commandments of the Lord, v.
6. And, negatively, not after the flesh, Rom. 8:4; not after the manner of men, 1 Cor. 3:3;
not in craftiness, 2 Cor. 4:2; not by sight, 5:7; not in the vanity of the mind, Eph. 4:17;
not disorderly, 2 Thess. 3:6.”* See
GO
,
Note
(2) (r).
2.
$
(
$ "
, 4198), for which see
DEPART
, No. 8, and
GO
, No. 1, is used in
the middle voice and rendered “to walk” in Luke 1:6, of the general activities of life; so
in Luke 13:33,
KJV
, “walk” (
RV
, “go on My way”); Acts 9:31; 14:16; 1 Pet. 4:3; 2 Pet.
2:10; Jude 16, 18.
3.
(
# $
!
, 1704), “to walk about in, or among” ( , “in,” and No.
1), is used in 2 Cor. 6:16, of the activities of God in the lives of believers.¶
4.
(
!
, 4748), from
, “a row,” signifies “to walk in line,” and is
used metaphorically of “walking” in relation to others (No. 1 is used more especially of
the individual walk); in Acts 21:24, it is translated “walkest orderly”; in Rom. 4:12,
“walk (in … steps)”; in Gal. 5:25 it is used of walking “by the Spirit,”
RV
, in an
exhortation to keep step with one another in submission of heart to the Holy Spirit, and
therefore of keeping step with Christ, the great means of unity and harmony in a church
(contrast No. 1 in v. 16; v. 25 begins a new section which extends to 6:10); in 6:16 it is
used of walking by the rule expressed in vv. 14, 15; in Phil. 3:16 the reference is to the
course pursued by the believer who makes “the prize of the high calling” the object of his
ambition.¶ In the Sept., Eccl. 1:16.¶
5.
(
!$
, 1330), “to go through” ( ), is rendered “to walk through”
in the
KJV
of Matt. 12:43 and Luke 11:24 (
RV
, “passeth through”). See
COME
, No. 5,
PASS
, No. 2.
* From
Notes on Thessalonians,
by Hogg and Vine p. 67.