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Israel is “done away” in Christ, v. 14; those who seek justification by the Law are
“severed” from Christ, they are rendered inactive in relation to Him, Gal. 5:4; the
essential effect of the preaching of the Cross would become inoperative by the preaching
of circumcision, 5:11; by the death of Christ the barrier between Jew and Gentile is
rendered inoperative as such, Eph. 2:15; the Man of Sin is to be reduced to inactivity by
the manifestation of the Lord’s
8 $
with His people, 2 Thess. 2:8; Christ has
rendered death inactive for the believer, 2 Tim. 1:10, death becoming the means of a
more glorious life, with Christ; the Devil is to be reduced to inactivity through the death
of Christ, Heb. 2:14. See
CEASE
,
CUMBER
,
DESTROY
,
DO
,
Note
(7),
OF NONE EFFECT
,
NOUGHT
,
PUT
, No. 19,
VOID
.¶
ABOMINABLE, ABOMINATION
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
!
, 111) occurs in Acts 10:28, “unlawful,” and 1 Pet. 4:3,
“abominable” ( , negative,
, an adjective from
, “law”), hence,
“unlawful.” See
UNLAWFUL
.¶
2.
$
(
, 947), Titus 1:16, is said of deceivers who profess to know
God, but deny Him by their works.¶
B. Verb.
$
(
"
, 948): see
ABHOR
, No. 2.
C. Noun.
$
(
!
, 946), akin to A, No. 2 and B, denotes an “object of disgust, an
abomination.” This is said of the image to be set up by Antichrist, Matt. 24:15; Mark
13:14; of that which is highly esteemed amongst men, in contrast to its real character in
the sight of God, Luke 16:15. The constant association with idolatry suggests that what is
highly esteemed among men constitutes an idol in the human heart. In Rev. 21:27,
entrance is forbidden into the Holy City on the part of the unclean, or one who “maketh
an abomination and a lie.” It is also used of the contents of the golden cup in the hand of
the evil woman described in Rev. 17:4, and of the name ascribed to her in the following
verse.¶
For
ABOUND
see
ABUNDANCE
ABOUT
A. Adverbs, etc.
Besides prepositions, the following signify “about”:—
1.
$
(
, 2943), “round about, or all round” (from
$
, “a circle,
cycle”), is found in the Apocalypse only, 4:3-4, 8.¶
2.
$
(
"
-
, 2945), the dative case of
$
(see above), means “round about,”
lit., “in a circle.” It is used in the same way as No. 1, Mark 3:34; 6:6, 36; Luke 9:12;
Rom. 15:19; Rev. 4:6; 5:11; 7:11.¶
3.
$
(
"
, 4225), an indefinite particle, signifying “somewhere, somewhere about,
nearly,” has a limiting force, with numerals, e.g., Rom. 4:19. In referring to a passage in
the OT, it is translated “somewhere,” in the
RV
of Heb. 2:6 and 4:4 (
KJV
, “in a certain