rwp - reconcile

rwp@Acts:7:26 @{The day following} (\ti epiousi hmeri\). Locative case, "on the following day" (from \epeimi\, to come upon, to approach, present active participle \epin -ousa, -on\). Common phrase in old Greek both with \hmera\ (day) as here and without as strkjv@16:11|. Only in Acts in the N.T. {Appeared} (\phth\). First aorist passive indicative of \hora\ not with idea that only a vision but rather that it was sudden or unexpected. {As they strove} (\machomenois\). Present middle participle of \machomai\, actually fighting. {Would have set them at one again} (\sunllassen autous eis eirnen\)...Better, he tried to reconcile them...(or change them into peace). It is the conative imperfect active as in strkjv@Matthew:3:14| of \sunallass\, only here in the N.T. though common in the old Greek. Vulgate has _reconciliabat_...in the N.T. for reconcile is...\katallass\. {Do ye wrong one to another} (\adikeite alllous\). The same word used in verse 24| of the wrong done one of the Hebrews by the Egyptian, but here both are "brethren."

rwp@Hebrews:3:6 @{Whose house are we} (\hou oikos esmen hmeis\). We Christians (Jew and Gentile) looked at as a whole, not as a local organization. {If we hold fast} (\ean kataschmen\). Condition of third class with \ean\ and second aorist (effective) active subjunctive of \katech\. This note of contingency and doubt runs all through the Epistle. We are God's house if we do not play the traitor and desert. {Boldness} (\parrsian\) {and glorying} (\kai kauchma\)...makes no effort to reconcile this...\mechri telous bebaian\ (firm unto the end), but it is clearly genuine in verse 14|. He pleads for intelligent confidence.

rwp@Luke:24:4 @{While they were perplexed thereabout} (\en ti aporeisthai autas peri toutou\). Luke's common Hebraistic idiom, \en\ with the articular infinitive (present passive \aporeisthai\ from \apore\, to lose one's way) and the accusative of general reference. {Two men} (\andres duo\). Men, not women. strkjv@Mark:16:5| speaks of a young man (\neaniskon\) while strkjv@Matthew:28:5|...need not try to reconcile these...23| Cleopas and his companion call them "angels." {Stood by} (\epestsan\). Second aorist active indicative of \ephistmi\. This common verb usually means to step up suddenly, to burst upon one. {In dazzling apparel} (\en esthti astraptousi\). This is the correct text. This common simplex verb occurs only twice in the N.T., here and strkjv@Luke:17:24| (the Transfiguration). It has the same root as \astrap\ (lightning). The "men" had the garments of "angels."

rwp@Matthew:28:2 @{There was a great earthquake} (\seismos egeneto megas\). Clearly not the earthquake of strkjv@27:51|. The precise time of this earthquake is not given. It was before sunrise on the first day of the week when the women made the next visit. Matthew alone relates the coming of the angel of the Lord who rolled away the stone and was sitting upon it (\apekulise ton lithon kai ekathto epan autou\). If one is querulous about these supernatural phenomena, he should reflect that the Resurrection of Jesus is one of the great supernatural events of all time. Cornelius ...to be able to reconcile them....(McNeile).

rwp@Philippians:2:12 @{Not as in my presence only} (\m hs en ti parousii monon\). B and a few other MSS. omit \hs\. The negative \m\ goes with the imperative \katergazesthe\ (work out), not with \hupkousate\ (obeyed) which would call for \ouch\. {Much more} (\polli mallon\). They are not to render eye-service only when Paul is there, but much more when he is away. {Work out} (\katergazesthe\). Perfective use of \kata\ (down) in composition, work on to the finish. This exhortation assumes human free agency in the carrying on the work of one's salvation. {With fear and trembling} (\meta phobou kai tromou\). "Not slavish terror, but wholesome, serious caution" (Vincent). "A nervous and trembling anxiety to do right" (Lightfoot)...makes no attempt to reconcile divine...

rwp@Revelation:15:3 @{The song of Moses} (\tn idn tou Muses\). strkjv@Exodus:14:31; strkjv@15:1-19|. A song of victory like that of Moses after crossing the Red Sea. {And the song of the Lamb} (\tn idn tou arniou\)...finds it impossible to reconcile the...(\megala\) from strkjv@Psalms:111:2|, "wonderful" (\thaumasta\) from strkjv@Psalms:139:14|, "O Lord God the Almighty" (\Kurie ho theos ho pantokratr\) from strkjv@Amos:4:13| (Revelation:4:8|), "righteous and true" (\dikaiai kai althinai\) from strkjv@Deuteronomy:32:4|, "Thou King of the ages" (\ho basileus tn ainn\) like strkjv@Jeremiah:10:10; strkjv@1Timothy:1:17|. Some MSS. have "the king of the saints" and some "the king of the nations," like strkjv@Jeremiah:10:7|. John thus combines in Hebraic tone the expressions of the old and the new in the song to the Glorified Messiah.

rwp@Romans:5:10 @{We were reconciled to God} (\katllagmen ti thei\). Second aorist passive indicative of \katallass\ for which great Pauline word see on ¯2Corinthians:5:18f|...or our task to reconcile God...(Romans:3:25f.|). We become reconciled to God by means of the death of God's Son. "Much more" again we shall be saved "by his life" (\en ti zi autou\). "In his life," for he does live, "ever living to intercede for them" (Hebrews:7:25|).

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