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3.
$
(
"
, 2703), “to flee for refuge” (
, used intensively, and
No. 1), is used (a) literally in Acts 14:6; (b) metaphorically in Heb. 6:18, of “fleeing” for
refuge to lay hold upon hope.¶
Note:
For
$
and
$
, see
ESCAPE
.
FLESH
1.
@
(
1$
, 4561) has a wider range of meaning in the NT than in the OT. Its uses
in the NT may be analyzed as follows:
“(a) “the substance of the body,” whether of beasts or of men, 1 Cor. 15:39; (b) “the
human body,” 2 Cor. 10:3a; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:22; (c) by synecdoche, of “mankind,” in
the totality of all that is essential to manhood, i.e., spirit, soul, and body, Matt. 24:22;
John 1:13; Rom. 3:20; (d) by synecdoche, of “the holy humanity” of the Lord Jesus, in
the totality of all that is essential to manhood, i.e., spirit, soul, and body John 1:14; 1 Tim.
3:16; 1 John 4:2; 2 John 7, in Heb. 5:7, “the days of His flesh,” i.e., His past life on earth
in distinction from His present life in resurrection; (e) by synecdoche, for “the complete
person,” John 6:51-57; 2 Cor. 7:5; Jas. 5:3; (f) “the weaker element in human nature,”
Matt. 26:41; Rom. 6:19; 8:3a; (g) “the unregenerate state of men,” Rom. 7:5; 8:8, 9; (h)
“the seat of sin in man” (but this is not the same thing as in the body), 2 Pet. 2:18; 1 John
2:16; (i) “the lower and temporary element in the Christian,” Gal. 3:3; 6:8, and in
religious ordinances, Heb. 9:10; (j) “the natural attainments of men,” 1 Cor. 1:26; 2 Cor.
10:2, 3b; (k) “circumstances,” 1 Cor. 7:28; the externals of life, 2 Cor. 7:1; Eph. 6:5; Heb.
9:13; (1) by metonymy, “the outward and seeming,” as contrasted with the spirit, the
inward and real, John 6:63; 2 Cor. 5:16; (m) “natural relationship, consanguine,” 1 Cor.
10:18; Gal. 4:23, or marital, Matt. 19:5.”*
In Matt. 26:41; Rom. 8:4, 13; 1 Cor. 5:5; Gal. 6:8 (not the Holy Spirit, here), “flesh”
is contrasted with spirit, in Rom. 2:28, 29, with heart and spirit; in Rom. 7:25, with the
mind; cf. Col. 2:1, 5. It is coupled with the mind in Eph. 2:3, and with the spirit in 2 Cor.
7:1.
Note:
In Col. 2:18 the noun
@
is used in the phrase “(by his) fleshly mind,” lit., “by
the mind of his flesh” [see (h) above], whereas the mind ought to be dominated by the
Spirit.
2.
(
$!
, 2907) denotes “flesh” in the sense of meat. It is used in the plural in
Rom. 14:21; 1 Cor. 8:13.¶
FLESHLY, FLESHY
1.
(
$
, 4559), akin to No. 1, under
FLESH
, signifies (a) associated with
or pertaining to, “the flesh, carnal,” Rom. 15:27; 1 Cor. 9:11; (b) of “the nature of the
flesh, sensual,” translated “fleshly” in 2 Cor. 1:12, of wisdom, in 1 Pet. 2:11, of lusts; in 2
Cor. 10:4, negatively, of the weapons of the Christian’s warfare,
RV
, “of the flesh” (
KJV
,
“carnal”). See
CARNAL
.
2.
(
1$
, 4560) denotes “of the flesh, fleshly” (the termination
signifying the substance or material of a thing); in 2 Cor. 3:3,
RV
, “(tables that are hearts)
of flesh,”
KJV
, fleshly (tables), etc. See
CARNAL
.
* From
Notes on Galatians,
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 111, 112.