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from
, “strife,” but from
, “a hireling”; hence the meaning of “seeking to win
followers,” “factions,” so rendered in the
RV
of 2 Cor. 12:20,
KJV
, “strifes”; not
improbably the meaning here is rivalries, or base ambitions (all the other words in the list
express abstract ideas rather than factions); Gal. 5:20 (ditto); Phil. 1:17 (
RV
;
KJV
, v. 16,
“contention”); 2:3 (
KJV
, “strife”); Jas. 3:14, 16 (ditto); in Rom. 2:8 it is translated as an
adjective, “factious” (
KJV
, “contentious”). The order “strife, jealousy, wrath, faction,” is
the same in 2 Cor. 12:20 and Gal. 5:20. “Faction” is the fruit of jealousy.¶ Cf. the
synonymous adjective
, Titus 3:10, causing division (marg., “factious”), not
necessarily “heretical,” in the sense of holding false doctrine.¶
FADE (away)
A. Verb.
(
$ &
, 3133) was used (a) to signify “to quench a fire,” and in the
passive voice, of the “dying out of a fire”; hence (b) in various relations, in the active
voice, “to quench, waste, wear out”; in the passive, “to waste away,” Jas. 1:11, of the
“fading” away of a rich man, as illustrated by the flower of the field.¶ In the Sept., Job
15:30; 24:24.¶
B. Adjectives (negative).
1.
(
1$
, 263), “unfading” ( , negative, and A, above), whence the
“amaranth,” an unfading flower, a symbol of perpetuity (see
8
6
, iii. 353), is
used in 1 Pet. 1:4 of the believer’s inheritance, “that fadeth not away.” It is found in
various writings in the language of the
, e.g., on a gladiator’s tomb; and as a proper
name (Moulton and Milligan, Vocab.).¶
2.
(
$1
, 262) primarily signifies “composed of amaranth” (see
No. 1); hence, “unfading,” 1 Pet. 5:4, of the crown of glory promised to faithful elders.¶
Cf.
, “made of roses” (
, “a rose”).
FAIL
A. Verbs.
1.
(
#
&
, 1587), “to leave out” ( , “out,”
, “to leave”), used
intransitively, means “to leave off, cease, fail”; it is said of the cessation of earthly life,
Luke 16:9; of faith, 22:32; of the light of the sun, 23:45 (in the best mss.); of the years of
Christ, Heb. 1:12.¶
2.
(
# &
, 1952), “not to suffice for a purpose” ( , over), is said of
insufficient time, in Heb. 11:32.¶
3.
(
&
, 4098), “to fall,” is used of the law of God in its smallest detail, in the
sense of losing its authority or ceasing to have force, Luke 16:17. In 1 Cor. 13:8 it is used
of love (some mss. have
, “to fall off”). See
FALL
.
Notes:
(1) In 1 Cor. 13:8,
, “to reduce to inactivity” (see
ABOLISH
), in the
passive voice, “to be reduced to this condition, to be done away,” is translated “shall
fail,”
KJV
. This, however, misses the distinction between what has been previously said of
love and what is here said of prophecies (see No. 3); the
RV
has “shall be done away”; so