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Notes:
(1) In 1 Cor. 10:27 the verb
, “to call,” in the sense of inviting to one’s
house, is translated “biddeth you (to a feast)”; in the most authentic texts there is no
separate phrase representing “to a feast,” as in some mss.,
(No. 2). (2) In
Mark 14:2 and John 2:23 the
KJV
translates
(see No. 1) by “feast day” (
RV
,
“feast”). (3) For the “Feast of the Dedication,” John 10:22, see
DEDICATION
.
B. Verbs.
1.
(
= $ 1
, 1858), “to keep festival” (akin to A, No. 1) is translated “let us
keep the feast,” in 1 Cor. 5:8. This is not the Lord’s Supper, nor the Passover, but has
reference to the continuous life of the believer as a festival or holy-day (see
KJV
, margin),
in freedom from “the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.Ӧ
2.
$ $
(
!
, 4910), “to entertain sumptuously with,” is used in the
passive voice, denoting “to feast sumptuously with” (
$
, “together,” and
$
, “good
cheer”), “to revel with,” translated “feast with” in 2 Pet. 2:13 and Jude 12.¶
FEEBLE
(
)
, 772), “without strength” ( , negative, and
, “strength”), is
translated “feeble” in 1 Cor. 12:22, of members of the body. See
IMPOTENT
,
SICK
,
STRENGTH
, B,
Note
(5),
WEAK
.
Notes:
(1) In Heb. 12:12
$
, “to weaken, enfeeble,” in the passive voice, “to be
enfeebled,” as by a paralytic stroke, is translated “feeble” in the
KJV
(
RV
, “palsied”). (2)
For “feeble-minded” in 1 Thess. 5:14,
KJV
, see
FAINTHEARTED
.
FEED, FED
1.
(
, 1006), “to feed,” is primarily used of a herdsman (from
, “to
nourish,” the special function being to provide food; the root is , found in
, “a
herdsman or herd,” and
, “fodder, pasture”), its uses are (a) literal, Matt. 8:30; in v.
33, the
RV
corrects the
KJV
, “they that kept,” to “they that fed,” as in Mark. 5:14 (
KJV
and
RV
) and Luke 8:34; in Mark 5:11 and Luke 8:32, “feeding”; Luke 15:15; (b)
metaphorical, of spiritual ministry, John 21:15, 17 (see
Note
on No. 2). See
KEEP
.¶
2.
(
&
, 4165), “to act as a shepherd” (from
, “a shepherd”), is
used (a) literally, Luke 17:7,
RV
, “keeping sheep,” for
KJV
, “feeding cattle”; 1 Cor. 9:7,
(b) metaphorically, “to tend, to shepherd”; said of Christ Matt. 2:6,
RV
, “shall be
Shepherd of” (for
KJV
, “shall rule”); of those who act as spiritual shepherds under Him,
John 21:16,
RV
, “tend” (for
KJV
“feed”), so 1 Pet. 5:2; Acts 20:28, “to feed” (“to tend”
would have been a consistent rendering; a shepherd does not only “feed” his flock); of
base shepherds, Jude 12. See
RULE
.
Note:
In John 21:15, 16, 17, the Lord, addressing Peter, first uses No. 1,
(v. 15)
then No. 2,
(v. 16), and then returns to
(v. 17). These are not simply
interchangeable (nor are other variations in His remarks); a study of the above notes will
show this. Nor, again, is there a progression of ideas. The lesson to be learnt, as Trench
points out (
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Sec.xxv), is that, in the spiritual care of God’s children, the “feeding” of