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WILES
, or — (
&
, 3180) denotes “craft, deceit” (
, “after,”
, “a
way”), “a cunning device, a wile,” and is translated “wiles (of error)” in Eph. 4:14,
RV
[KV paraphrases it, “they lie in wait (to deceive)”], lit., “(with a view to) the craft
(singular) of deceit”; in 6:11, “the wiles (plural) (of the Devil.)”¶
WILFULLY, WILLFULLY
A. Adverb.
$
(
=
&
, 1596) denotes “voluntarily, willingly,” Heb. 10:26, (of sinning)
“willfully”; in 1 Pet. 5:2, “willingly” (of exercising oversight over the flock of God).
B. Verb.
(
!
, 2309), “to will,” used in the present participle in 2 Pet. 3:5, is rendered
“willfully (forget)” in the
RV
,
KJV
, “willingly (are ignorant of),” lit., “this escapes them
(i.e., their notice) willing (i.e. of their own will).” See
WILL
, C, No. 1,
WILLING
, B, No. 1.
WILL, WOULD
A. Nouns.
1.
(
!
, 2307) signifies (a) objectively, “that which is willed, of the will
of God,” e.g., Matt. 18:14; Mark 3:35, the fulfilling being a sign of spiritual relationship
to the Lord, John 4:34; 5:30; 6:39, 40; Acts 13:22, plural, “my desires”; Rom. 2:18; 12:2,
lit., “the will of God, the good and perfect and acceptable”; here the repeated article is
probably resumptive, the adjectives describing the will, as in the Eng. versions; Gal. 1:4;
Eph. 1:9; 5:17, “of the Lord”; Col. 1:9; 4:12; 1 Thess. 4:3; 5:18, where it means “the
gracious design,” rather than “the determined resolve”; 2 Tim. 2:26, which should read
“which have been taken captive by him” [(
$ $
), i.e., by the Devil; the
RV
, “by the
Lord’s servant” is an interpretation; it does not correspond to the Greek] unto His
(
$
) will” (i.e., “God’s will”; the different pronoun refers back to the subject of the
sentence, viz., God); Heb. 10:10; Rev. 4:11,
RV
, “because of Thy will”; of human will,
e.g., 1 Cor. 7:37; (b) subjectively, the “will” being spoken of as the emotion of being
desirous, rather than as the thing “willed”; of the “will” of God, e.g., Rom. 1:10; 1 Cor.
1:1; 2 Cor. 1:1; 8:5; Eph. 1:1, 5, 11; Col. 1:1; 2 Tim. 1:1; Heb. 10:7, 9, 36; 1 John 2:17;
5:14; of human “will,” e.g., John 1:13; Eph. 2:3, “the desires of the flesh”; 1 Pet. 4:3 (in
some texts); 2 Pet. 1:21. See
DESIRE
, A, No. 5,
PLEASURE
,
Note
(1).
2.
(
!
, 2308) denotes “a willing, a wishing” [similar to No. 1 (b)], Heb.
2:4.¶
3.
$
(
"
, 1013), “a deliberate design, that which is purposed,” Rom.
9:19; 1 Pet. 4:3 (in the best texts). See
PURPOSE
, A, No. 1.
4.
$
(
'
&
, 2107) (
$
, “well,”
, “to think”) is rendered “good will” in
Luke 2:14,
KJV
(see
WELL PLEASED
); Phil. 1:15: see
DESIRE
,
PLEASURE
,
SEEM
,
WELL
-
PLEASING
.
5.
$
(
E
, 2133), “good will” (
$
, “well,”
$
, “the mind”), occurs in Eph.
6:7 (in some texts, 1 Cor. 7:3).¶