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1.
(
$
, 2818) lit. denotes “one who obtains a lot or portion
(
, “a lot,”
, “to possess”), especially of an inheritance. The NT usage may
be analyzed as under: “(a) the person to whom property is to pass on the death of the
owner, Matt. 21:38; Mark 12:7; Luke 20:14; Gal. 4:1; (b) one to whom something has
been assigned by God, on possession of which, however, he has not yet entered, as
Abraham, Rom. 4:13, 14; Heb. 6:17; Christ, Heb. 1:2; the poor saints, Jas. 2:5; (c)
believers, inasmuch as they share in the new order of things to be ushered in at the return
of Christ, Rom. 8:17; Gal. 3:29; 4:7; Titus 3:7; (d) one who receives something other than
by merit, as Noah, Heb. 11:7.”*¶
In the Sept., Judg. 18:7; 2 Sam. 14:7; Jer. 8:10; Mic. 1:15.¶
2.
$
(
$
, 4789), “a joint-heir, co-inheritor” (
$
, “with,”
and No. 1), “is used of Isaac and Jacob as participants with Abraham in the promises of
God, Heb. 11:9; of husband and wife who are also united in Christ, 1 Pet. 3:7; of Gentiles
who believe, as participants in the gospel with Jews who believe, Eph. 3:6; and of all
believers as prospective participants with Christ in His glory, as recompense for their
participation in His sufferings, Rom. 8:17.”*¶
B. Verb.
(
$
!
, 2816), “to be an heir to, to inherit” (see A, No. 1), is
rendered “shall (not) inherit with” in Gal. 4:30,
RV
,
KJV
, “shall (not) be heir with”; in
Heb. 1:14,
RV
, “shall inherit,”
KJV
, “shall be heirs of.” See
INHERIT
. Cf.
, “to be
taken as an inheritance,”
, “an inheritance,”
, “a lot, an inheritance.”
HELL
1.
(
!
, 1067) represents the Hebrew Ge-Hinnom (the valley of Tophet)
and a corresponding Aramaic word; it is found twelve times in the NT, eleven of which
are in the Synoptists, in every instance as uttered by the Lord Himself. He who says to his
brother, Thou fool (see under
FOOL
), will be in danger of “the hell of fire,” Matt. 5:22; it
is better to pluck out (a metaphorical description of irrevocable law) an eye that causes its
possessor to stumble, than that his “whole body be cast into hell,” v. 29; similarly with
the hand, v. 30; in Matt. 18:8, 9, the admonitions are repeated, with an additional mention
of the foot; here, too, the warning concerns the person himself (for which obviously the
“body” stands in chapt. 5); in v. 8, “the eternal fire” is mentioned as the doom, the
character of the region standing for the region itself, the two being combined in the
phrase “the hell of fire,” v. 9. To the passage in Matt. 18, that in Mark 9:43-47, is
parallel; here to the word “hell” are applied the extended descriptions “the unquenchable
fire” and “where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.”
That God, “after He hath killed, hath power to cast into hell,” is assigned as a reason
why He should be feared with the fear that keeps from evil doing, Luke 12:5; the parallel
passage to this in Matt. 10:28 declares, not the casting in, but the doom which follows,
namely, the destruction (not the loss of being, but of wellbeing) of “both soul and body.”
* From
Notes on Galatians,
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 177,
* From
Notes on Galatians,
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 178.