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(
KJV
, “had in reputation”); so in Heb. 13:4,
RV
, “let marriage be had in honor”;
KJV
, “is
honorable”; Acts 20:24, “dear,” negatively of Paul’s estimate of his life; Jas. 5:7,
“precious” (of fruit); 1 Pet. 1:19, “precious” (of the blood of Christ); 2 Pet. 1:4 (of God’s
promises). See
COSTLY
,
HONORABLE
,
REPUTATION
,
PRECIOUS
.¶ Cf.
, preciousness,
Rev. 18:19.¶
2.
(
+
, 1784), “held in honor” (
, see above), “precious, dear,” is
found in Luke 7:2, of the centurion’s servant; 14:8, “more honorable”; Phil. 2:29,
“honor” (
KJV
, “reputation”), of devoted servants of Christ, in 1 Pet. 2:4, 6, “precious,” of
stones, metaphorically. See
HONORABLE
,
REPUTATION
,
PRECIOUS
.¶
3.
(
, 27), from
, “love,” signifies “beloved”; it is rendered
“very dear” in 1 Thess. 2:8 (
KJV
, “dear”), of the affection of Paul and his fellow workers
for the saints at Thessalonica; in Eph. 5:1 and Col. 1:7,
KJV
, dear;
RV
, “beloved.” See
BELOVED
.
Note:
In Col. 1:13,
is translated “dear” in the
KJV
; the
RV
, adhering to the noun,
has “the Son of His love.”
For
DEARLY
see
BELOVED
For
DEARTH
see
FAMINE
DEATH, DEATH-STROKE (See also
DIE
)
A. Nouns
1.
(
1
, 2288), “death,” is used in Scripture of:
(a) the separation of the soul (the spiritual part of man) from the body (the material
part), the latter ceasing to function and turning to dust, e.g., John 11:13; Heb. 2:15; 5:7;
7:23. In Heb. 9:15, the
KJV
, “by means of death” is inadequate; the
RV
, “a death having
taken place” is in keeping with the subject. In Rev. 13:3, 12, the
RV
, “death-stroke” (
KJV
,
“deadly wound”) is, lit., “the stroke of death”:
(b) the separation of man from God; Adam died on the day he disobeyed God, Gen.
2:17, and hence all mankind are born in the same spiritual condition, Rom. 5:12, 14, 17,
21, from which, however, those who believe in Christ are delivered, John 5:24; 1 John
3:14. “Death” is the opposite of life; it never denotes nonexistence. As spiritual life is
“conscious existence in communion with God,” so spiritual “death” is “conscious
existence in separation from God.”
“Death, in whichever of the above-mentioned senses it is used, is always, in
Scripture, viewed as the penal consequence of sin, and since sinners alone are subject to
death, Rom. 5:12, it was as the Bearer of sin that the Lord Jesus submitted thereto on the
Cross, 1 Pet. 2:24. And while the physical death of the Lord Jesus was of the essence of
His sacrifice, it was not the whole. The darkness symbolized, and His cry expressed, the
fact that He was left alone in the Universe, He was ‘forsaken;’ cf. Matt. 27:45-46.”*
2.
(
&$
, 336), another word for “death,” lit. signifies “a taking up or
off” ( , “up,”
, “to take”), as of the taking of a life, or “putting to death”; it is
found in Acts 8:1, of the murder of Stephen. Some mss. have it in 22:20. See
,
under
KILL
.¶ In the Sept., Num. 11:15; Judg. 15:17, “the lifting of the jawbone.¶
* From
Notes on Thessalonians,
by Hogg and Vine, p. 134.