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$
(
, 5447), “naturally, by nature” (akin to A, No. 1), is used in Jude
10.¶
Note:
In Phil. 2:20,
KJV
,
, “sincerely, honorably, truly” (from the adjective
, “true, sincere, genuine”; see, e.g., Phil. 4:3), is translated “naturally” (
RV
,
“truly,” marg., “genuinely”).¶
NATURE
1.
$
(
"
, 5449), from
$
, “to bring forth, produce,” signifies (a) “the
nature” (i.e., the natural powers or constitution) of a person or thing, Eph. 2:3; Jas. 3:7
(“kind”); 2 Pet. 1:4; (b) “origin, birth,” Rom. 2:27, one who by birth is a Gentile,
uncircumcised, in contrast to one who, though circumcised, has become spiritually
uncircumcised by his iniquity; Gal. 2:15; (c) “the regular law or order of nature,” Rom.
1:26, against “nature” (
, “against”); 2:14, adverbially, “by nature” (for 11:21, 24, see
NATURAL
, Note); 1 Cor. 11:14; Gal. 4:8, “by nature (are no gods),” here “nature” is the
emphatic word, and the phrase includes demons, men regarded as deified, and idols; these
are gods only in name (the negative, , denies not simply that they were gods, but the
possibility that they could be).¶
2.
(
!
, 1078) is used in the phrase in Jas. 3:6, “the wheel of nature,”
RV
(marg., “birth”). Some regard this as the course of birth or of creation, or the course of
man’s “nature” according to its original divine purpose; Mayor (on the Ep. of James)
regards
here as a wheel, “which, catching fire from the glowing axle, is compared
to the widespreading mischief done by the tongue,” and shows that “the fully developed
meaning” of genesis denotes “the incessant change of life … the sphere of this earthly
life, meaning all that is contained in our life.” The significance, then, would appear to be
the whole round of human life and activity. Moulton and Milligan illustrate it in this
sense from the papyri. See
NATURAL
, B.
For
NAUGHTINESS,
Jas. 1:21
,
KJV
, see
WICKEDNESS
NAY
1.
$
(
'
, 3756), “no, not,” expressing a negation absolutely, is rendered “nay,” e.g.,
in Matt. 5:37; 13:29; John 7:12,
KJV
(
RV
, “not so”); Acts 16:37; 2 Cor. 1:17-19; Jas. 5:12.
2.
$
(
' &
, 3780), a strengthened form of No. 1, is used, e.g., in Luke 12:51; 13:3,
5; 16:30; Rom. 3:27.
3.
(
1
, 235), “but,” to mark contrast or opposition, is rendered “nay” in Rom.
3:31,
RV
, “nay” (
KJV
, “yea”); in 7:7,
RV
, “howbeit” (
KJV
, “nay”); 8:37; 1 Cor. 3:2,
RV
;
6:8; 12:22; in Heb. 3:16,
RV
, “nay” (
KJV
, “howbeit”).
4.
$
(
, 3304), (i.e.,
$
), “nay rather,” is rendered “nay
but” in Rom. 9:20 (in Rom. 10:18 and Phil. 3:8, “yea verily,”
KJV
, “yea doubtless”). See
YEA
.¶
NEAR (Adverb), NEAR (come, draw), NEARER
A. Adverbs.