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TEMPEST
1.
$
(
"
, 2366), “a hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind” (akin to
$
, “to slay,”
and
$
, “wrath”), is used in Heb. 12:18.¶ In the Sept., Ex. 10:22; Deut. 4:11; 5:22.¶
2.
(
, 4578), “a shaking” (Eng., “seismic,” etc.), is used of a “tempest”
in Matt. 8:24. See
EARTHQUAKE
.
3.
(
0
, 5494), “winter, a winter storm,” hence, in general, “a tempest,”
is so rendered in Acts 27:20. See
WEATHER
,
WINTER
.
4.
(
, 2978), “a tempest,” 2 Pet. 2:17,
KJV
: see
STORM
.
Note:
For “tossed with a tempest,” Acts 27:18,
KJV
, see
LABOR
, B, No. 2.
TEMPESTUOUS
$
(
, 5189), from
$
, “a hurricane, typhoon,” is translated
“tempestuous” in Acts 27:14.¶
TEMPLE
1.
(
, $
, 2411), the neuter of the adjective
, “sacred,” is used as a noun
denoting “a sacred place, a temple,” that of Artemis (Diana), Acts 19:27; that in
Jerusalem, Mark 11:11, signifying the entire building with its precincts, or some part
thereof, as distinct from the
, “the inner sanctuary” (see No. 2); apart from the
Gospels and Acts, it is mentioned only in 1 Cor. 9:13. Christ taught in one of the courts,
to which all the people had access.
B
is never used figuratively. The Temple
mentioned in the Gospels and Acts was begun by Herod in 20 B.C., and destroyed by the
Romans in A.D. 70.
2.
(
, 3485), “a shrine or sanctuary,” was used (a) among the heathen, to
denote the shrine containing the idol, Acts 17:24; 19:24 (in the latter, miniatures); (b)
among the Jews, the sanctuary in the “Temple,” into which only the priests could
lawfully enter, e.g., Luke 1:9, 21, 22; Christ, as being of the tribe of Judah, and thus not
being a priest while upon the earth (Heb. 7:13, 14; 8:4), did not enter the
; for 2
Thess. 2:4 see
Note
(below); (c) by Christ metaphorically, of His own physical body,
John 2:19, 21; (d) in apostolic teaching, metaphorically, (1) of the church, the mystical
body of Christ, Eph. 2:21; (2) of a local church, 1 Cor. 3:16, 17; 2 Cor. 6:16; (3) of the
present body of the individual believer, 1 Cor. 6:19; (4) of the “Temple” seen in visions
in the Apocalypse, 3:12; 7:15; 11:19; 14:15, 17; 15:5, 6, 8; 16:1, 17; (5) of the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb, as the “Temple” of the new and heavenly Jerusalem, Rev. 21:22.
See
SANCTUARY
and
HOLY
, B (b), par. 4.
Notes:
(1) The “temple” mentioned in 2 Thess. 2:4 (
), as the seat of the Man of
Sin, has been regarded in different ways. The weight of Scripture evidence is in favor of
the view that it refers to a literal “temple” in Jerusalem, to be reconstructed in the future
(cf. Dan. 11:31 and 12:11, with Matt. 24:15). For a fuller examination of the passage, see
:
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 250-252. (2) For
, rendered
“temple,” Luke 11:51,
KJV
, see
HOUSE
, No. 1.
TEMPLE KEEPER