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2.
(
2$ 1
, 726), “to seize, snatch away,” is rendered “spoil” in Matt.
12:29a (see No. 1). See
CATCH
, No. 1.
3.
$
(
!
, 4812), “to carry off as spoil, lead captive” (
$
, “spoil,”
, “to lead”), is rendered “maketh spoil of” in Col. 2:8,
RV
(
KJV
, “spoil”), rather “carry
you off as spoil.” The false teacher, through his “philosophy and vain deceit,” would
carry them off as so much booty.¶
4.
$
(
"
, 554), in the middle voice is translated “having spoiled” in
Col. 2:15,
KJV
,
RV
, “having put off from Himself (the principalities and the powers).”
These are regarded by some as the unsinning angels, because they are mentioned twice
before in the Epistle (1:16; 2:10). It is also argued that the verb
$
, rendered
“having put off from Himself,” in 2:15, is used in a somewhat different sense in 3:9. Such
representations do not form a sufficiently cogent reason for regarding the principalities
and the powers here mentioned as those of light, rather than those of darkness.
Others think that the reference is to the holy angels, which were in attendance at the
giving of the Law (Acts 7:53; Gal. 3:19), and that Christ wrought His work on the cross,
without any such attendance; or, again, that, even apart from the Law and its
circumstances, the Lord stripped Himself of those who usually ministered to Him, as,
e.g., in the wilderness and in the garden of Gethsemane.
The exposition given by Lightfoot and others seems to be the right one. There is no
doubt that Satan and his hosts gathered together to attack the soul of Christ, while He was
enduring, in propitiatory sacrifice, the judgment due to our sins, and fulfilling the great
work of redemption. There is an intimation of this in Ps. 22:21, “Save Me from the lion’s
mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen” (cf. vv. 12, 13). Doubtless the powers of
darkness gathered against the Lord at that time, fiercely assaulting Him to the utmost of
their power. He Himself had said, “This is your hour, and the power of darkness” (Luke
22:53). The metaphor of putting off from Himself these powers need not be pressed to the
extent of regarding them as a garment clinging about Him. It seems to stand simply as a
vivid description of His repulsion of their attack and of the power by which He
completely overthrew them.
SPONGE
(
, 4699) was the medium by which vinegar was carried to the mouth
of Christ on the cross, Matt. 27:48; Mark 15:36; John 19:29.¶
SPORTING
$
(
#
$ 1
, 1792) occurs in 2 Pet. 2:13 (
RV
, “revel”).
SPOT (Noun and Verb)
A. Nouns.
1.
(
&
, 4696), “a spot or stain,” is used metaphorically (a) of moral
blemish, Eph. 5:27; (b) of lascivious and riotous persons, 2 Pet. 2:13.¶
2.
(
1
, 4694) is rendered “spots” in Jude 12,
KJV
: see
ROCK
, No. 2.
B. Verb.
(
, 4695), akin to A, No. 1, is used in Jude 23, in the clause “hating even
the garment spotted by the flesh,” the garment representing that which, being brought