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1.
$
(
!
, 4797), or
$
$
or
$
$
(the verb form of A., No. 2),
lit., “to pour together, commingle,” hence (said of persons), means “to trouble or confuse,
to stir up,” Acts 19:32 (said of the mind); “to be in confusion,” 21:31,
RV
(
KJV
, “was in an
uproar”); 21:27, “stirred up”; Acts 2:6; 9:22, “confounded. See
STIR
,
UPROAR
.¶
2.
$
(
"
, 2617), “to put to shame,” is translated “confound” in 1
Cor. 1:27, and 1 Pet. 2:6,
KJV
(
RV
, “put to shame”). See
ASHAMED
,
DISHONOR
,
SHAME
.
CONFUTE
(
!
, 1246), “to confute powerfully,” is an intensive
form of
, “to convict” ( , “through,”
, “down,” both intensive), Acts 18:28,
implying that “he met the opposing arguments in turn ( ), and brought them down to
the ground (
).” It carries also the thought that he brought home moral blame to them.
CONGREGATION
1.
(
#
&
, 1577) is translated “congregation” in Heb. 2:12,
RV
, instead of
the usual rendering “church.” See
ASSEMBLY
.
2.
$
(
)
, 4864) is translated “congregation” in Acts 13:43,
KJV
(
RV
,
“synagogue). See
SYNAGOGUE
.
CONQUER, CONQUEROR
1.
(
1
, 3528), “to overcome” (its usual meaning), is translated
“conquering” and “to conquer” in Rev. 6:2. See
OVERCOME
,
PREVAIL
,
VICTORY
.
2.
$
(
% $
1
, 5245), “to be more than conqueror” (
$
, “over,” and
No. 1), “to gain a surpassing victory,” is found in Rom. 8:37, lit., “we are hyper-
conquerors,” i.e., we are pre-eminently victorious.¶
CONSCIENCE
$
(
&
, 4893), lit., “a knowing with” (
$
, “with,”
, “to know”),
i.e., “a co-knowledge (with oneself), the witness borne to one’s conduct by conscience,
that faculty by which we apprehend the will of God, as that which is designed to govern
our lives”; hence (a) the sense of guiltiness before God; Heb. 10:2; (b) that process of
thought which distinguishes what it considers morally good or bad, commending the
good, condemning the bad, and so prompting to do the former, and avoid the latter; Rom.
2:15 (bearing witness with God’s law); 9:1; 2 Cor. 1:12; acting in a certain way because
“conscience” requires it, Rom. 13:5; so as not to cause scruples of “conscience” in
another, 1 Cor. 10:28-29; not calling a thing in question unnecessarily, as if conscience
demanded it, 1 Cor. 10:25, 27; “commending oneself to every man’s conscience,” 2 Cor.
4:2; cf. 5:11. There may be a “conscience” not strong enough to distinguish clearly
between the lawful and the unlawful, 1 Cor. 8:7, 10, 12 (some regard consciousness as
the meaning here). The phrase “conscience toward God,” in 1 Pet. 2:19, signifies a
“conscience” (or perhaps here, a consciousness) so controlled by the apprehension of
God’s presence, that the person realizes that griefs are to be borne in accordance with His
will. Heb. 9:9 teaches that sacrifices under the Law could not so perfect a person that he
could regard himself as free from guilt.