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IMMUTABLE, IMMUTABILITY
(
1
, 276), an adjective signifying “immutable” ( , negative,
, “to change”), Heb. 6:18, where the “two immutable things” are the promise
and the oath. In v. 17 the word is used in the neuter with the article, as a noun, denoting
“the immutability,” with reference to God’s counsel. Examples from the papyri show that
the word was used as a technical term in connection with wills, “The connotation adds
considerably to the force of Heb. 6:17 (and foll.)” (Moulton and Milligan).¶
IMPART
1.
(
$
&
, 4323) is used in the middle voice in the NT, in
Gal. 1:16, “conferred,” or “had recourse to,” and 2:6,
RV
, “imparted.” See
CONFER
.¶
2.
(
&
, 3330): see
GIVE
, No. 4.
IMPEDIMENT
(
1
, 3424) denotes “speaking with difficulty” (
, “hardly,”
, “to talk”), “stammering,” Mark 7:32; some mss. have
, “thick-voiced”
(from
, “with a hoarse, hollow voice”).¶ In the Sept., Isa. 35:6 “(the tongue) of
stammerers.Ӧ
IMPENITENT
(
, 279), lit., “without change of mind” ( , negative,
, “to change one’s mind,”
, signifying “change,”
$
, “the mind”), is used
in Rom. 2:5, “impenitent” (or “unrepentant”).¶ Moulton and Milligan show from the
papyri writings that the word is also used “in a passive sense, ‘not affected by change of
mind,’ like
in Rom. 11:29,” “without repentance.”
IMPLACABLE
(
/
, 786) lit. denotes “without a libation” ( , negative,
, “a
libation”), i.e., “without a truce,” as a libation accompanied the making of treaties and
compacts; then, “one who cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant,” “implacable,” 2
Tim. 3:3 (
KJV
, “truce-breakers”). Some mss. have this word in Rom. 1:31.¶
Note:
Trench (
- !
Sec.lii) contrasts
with
$
; see
Note
under
COVENANTBREAKERS
.
*
may signify “untrue to one’s promise,”
$
“not
abiding by one’s covenant, treacherous.”
For
IMPLEAD
see
ACCUSE
, B, No. 2
IMPLANTED
$
(
+
, 1721), “implanted,” or “rooted” (from
$
, “to implant”), is
used in Jas. 1:21,
RV
, “implanted,” for
KJV
, “engrafted,” of the Word of God, as the
“rooted word,” i.e., a word whose property it is to root itself like a seed in the heart. “The
KJV
seems to identify it with
$ $
, which however would be out of place here,
since the word is sown, not grafted, in the heart” (Mayor).¶
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