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“prevail”; in Luke 9:25,
KJV
, “(what is a man) advantaged?”
RV
, “profited.” See
BETTERED
(
TO BE
),
PREVAIL
,
PROFIT
.
2.
(
!
, 4122), lit., “to seek to get more” (
, “more,”
,
“to have”); hence, “to get an advantage of, to take advantage of.” In 2 Cor. 7:2 the
KJV
has “defrauded,” the
RV
, “took advantage of”; in 1 Thess. 4:6,
KJV
, “defraud,”
RV
,
“wrong.” In the other three places the
RV
consistently translates it by the verb “to take
advantage of,” 2 Cor. 2:11, of Satan’s effort to gain an “advantage” over the church,
through their neglect to restore the backslider; in 2 Cor. 12:17-18,
KJV
, “make a gain of.”
See
DEFRAUD
,
GAIN
,
WRONG
.¶
Note:
Cf.
, “a covetous person,”
@
, “covetousness.”
ADVENTURE
(
&
, 1325), “to give,” is once used of giving oneself to go into a place, “to
adventure” into, Acts 19:31, of Paul’s thought of going into the midst of the mob in the
theater at Ephesus. See
BESTOW
,
COMMIT
,
DELIVER
,
GIVE
.
ADVERSARY
A. Noun.
(
&
, 476), firstly, “an opponent in a lawsuit,” Matt. 5:25 (twice);
Luke 12:58; 18:3, is also used to denote “an adversary or an enemy,” without reference to
legal affairs, and this is perhaps its meaning in 1 Pet. 5:8, where it is used of the Devil.
Some would regard the word as there used in a legal sense, since the Devil accuses men
before God.¶
B. Verb.
(
&
, 480) is, lit., “to lie opposite to, to be set over against.” In
addition to its legal sense it signifies “to withstand”; the present participle of the verb
with the article, which is equivalent to a noun, signifies “an adversary,” e.g., Luke 13:17;
21:15; 1 Cor. 16:9; Phil. 1:28; 1 Tim. 5:14. This construction is used of the Man of Sin,
in 2 Thess. 2:4, and is translated “He that opposeth,” where, adopting the noun form, we
might render by “the opponent and self-exalter against.…” In Gal. 5:17 it is used of the
antagonism between the Holy Spirit and the flesh in the believer; in 1 Tim. 1:10, of
anything, in addition to persons, that is opposed to the doctrine of Christ. In these two
places the word is rendered “contrary to.”¶ In the Sept. it is used of Satan, Zech. 3:1, and
of men, Job 13:24; Isa. 66:6. See
CONTRARY
,
OPPOSE
.¶
C. Adjective.
$
(
%
&
, 5227), “contrary, opposed,” is a strengthened form of
( , “in,” and
, “set against”). The intensive force is due to the preposition
$
. It is translated “contrary to,” in Col. 2:14, of ordinances; in Heb. 10:27,
“adversaries.” In each place a more violent form of opposition is suggested than in the
case of
See
CONTRARY
.¶
For
ADVERSITY
, in
Heb. 13:3
, where the verb
$
is translated
in the
KJV
, “suffer adversity,” see
SUFFER
, (b), No. 6.
ADVICE, ADVISE