Chapter 16 - became intrigued with the translation of greet vs salute - so are they the same?
Greet/Salute - G782 - From G1 (as a particle of union) and a presumed form of G4685; to enfold in the arms, that is, (by implication) to salute, (figuratively) to welcome: - embrace, greet, salute, take leave.
- G4685 - A primary verb; to draw: - draw (out).
Used 60x in 49 verses - in Romans 16! :-)
And because I was browsing all the instances of G782 - the phrase 'holy kiss,' kept popping up...so inquiring mind...how many times is it used?
Rom 16:16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
1Co 16:20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
2Co 13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
What is a holy kiss?
Gill:
Christian salutation is a wishing all temporal, spiritual, and eternal happiness, to one another; and which, as it should be mutual, should be also hearty and sincere, and this is meant by the "holy kiss"; the allusion is to a common custom in most nations, used by friends at meeting or parting, to kiss each other, in token of their hearty love, and sincere affection and friendship for each other; and is called "holy", to distinguish it from an unchaste and lascivious one; and from an hypocritical and deceitful one, such an one as Joab gave to Amasa, when, inquiring of his health, he took him by the beard to kiss him, and stabbed him under the fifth rib, 2Sa_20:9; and as Judas, who cried, hail master, to Christ, and kissed him, and betrayed him into the hands of his enemies, Mat_26:49. I say, it is an allusion to this custom, for it is only an allusion; the apostle did not mean that any outward action should be made use of, only that their Christian salutations should not be mere complaisance, or expressed by bare words, and outward gestures and actions, either of the hand or mouth; but that they should spring from real love and true friendship, and be without dissimulation, hearty and sincere:
Gen 28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
Pondering upon how Jacob 'appears' to make his profession for God conditional...when in reality he has already been chosen.
Gen 25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Rom 9:12-13 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Predestination - ah, how some kick at the goads of God's sovereignty - truly for unregenerate man an unfathomable issue. When we are in our spiritually dead state, the Lord and Master of our Soul, whom we believe to be ourselves, but in reality is the false god, satan, convinces us that we can chose our fate. Reality (Bible version) is that we are already fated...some to God's eternal glory with Him, others to eternal damnation. All based upon HIS will, His choice, His sovereignty.
Gen 29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
It is hard to read this...to hear the lamentation of Leah's soul...thinking, nay, knowing that Jacob hated her...that he was not the preferred wife. *sigh*
hated - H8130 - A primitive root; to hate (personally): - enemy, foe, (be) hate (-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Wow! Used 146x in 139 verses - first usage:
Gen 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
A few in Psalms:
Psa 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Psa 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Psa 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Psa 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Pro 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Pro 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Jdg 14:17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Jdg 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
This makes me think of these passages:
Pro 21:19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Pro 27:15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
As a woman it is soooo easy to nag...and not just a husband...we tend to be talkers...sometimes more than we ought...I need to think more before I speak. Admonition from the Word:
Jas 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Regarding the tongue (translated 129x in 126 verses):
Psa 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Pro 10:20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Pro_15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Pro_18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Would that we all would be as the Proverbs woman:
Pro_31:26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Psalms 21-23
Psa 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Does He inhabit our praises - our our lips speaking to His glory?
Job 15-16
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Miserable comforters - indeed, there go those wayward tongues speaking harshly!
miserable - H5999 - From H5998; toil, that is, wearing effort; hence worry, whether of body or mind: - grievance (-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable (-sery), pain (-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
- H5998 - A primitive root; to toil, that is, work severely and with irksomeness: - [take] labour (in).
comforters - H5162 - A primitive root; properly to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): - comfort (self), ease [one’s self], repent (-er, -ing, self).
Isaiah 40-44
Isa 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Echoed:
Luk_3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mar_1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mat_3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mal_3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
This passage captured my attention with 'circle of the earth' and pondering upon.
Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in
circle - H2329 - From H2328; a circle: - circle, circuit, compassive.
- H2328 - A primitive root (compare H2287); to describe a circle: - compassive
earth - H776 - From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land): - X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X nations, way, + wilderness, world.
Gill: Or, "the globe (z)" of it; for the earth is spherical or globular: not a flat plain, but round, hung as a ball in the air; here Jehovah sits as the Lord and Sovereign; being the Maker of it, he is above it, orders and directs its motion, and governs all things in it: Kimchi rightly observes, that the heavens are the circle of the earth, which is the centre of them, and around which they are; and so it signifies, that the Lord sits or dwells in the heavens, from whence he beholds the children of men:
Only used 3x:
Job 22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit (H2329) of heaven.
Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass (H2329) upon the face of the depth:
Matthew 20-22
Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Mat 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
And we end with election, foreknowledge, God's sovereignty, His choosing those whom He will.
For the curious or inquisitive a few articles to 'oil' the tracks:
Grace to You - What is the Doctrine of Election
Got Questions - Who are the elect of God?
Founders Ministry - Election Stated and Defended (I haven't read this one - quite lengthy. I don't recall having any issues with this ministry; however if you find something, drop me a note.)
And my favorite resource - Chapel Library! :-)
A. W. Pink - Doctrine of Election
Spurgeon - Election
A.W. Pink - The Foreknowledge of God
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