42. EVIL. WICKED
42. EVIL. WICKED
Both and are translated ‘evil,’ but their application in scripture is different, though they may seem to blend. occurs but four times, referring to doing evil, Joh 3:20; Joh 5:29; and to the character of what is done as being evil. Tit 2:8; Jam 3:16
(from , ‘labour, sorrow’) often refers to the evil nature of the one acting, and the active working out of it. Thus Satan is called that ‘wicked’ one. Mat 13:19; Mat 13:38; Eph 6:16; 1Jn 2:13-14; 1Jn 3:12. The demons are evil spirits. Luk 7:21; Luk 8:2; Act 19:12-16. The same word is used in reference to the man living in sin in the church at Corinth – “put away . . . . that wicked person.” 1Co 5:13
, with its many compounds, is a common word for evil and (like ) may apply to the nature or character of those who commit evil. Mat 21:41; Mat 24:48; Php 3:2; Rev 2:2; as well as to their acts and principles, Mar 7:21; 1Co 15:33; Col 3:5; Rom 1:30; Rom 8:3; 2Co 13:7; though not always with this moral force: see Act 16:28; Act 28:5; ‘harm’; and Luk 16:25, ‘evil things.’
would in Latin be industri malus, malignus. So the enemy of souls is emphatically, , “the evil one.” in Latin is malus, improbus , etc., and is used in a very general way, opposed to both and , ‘good:’ 3Jn 1:11. Both and occur in Rev 16:2; “noisome (.) and grievous (.)”; and their nouns and , “malice and wickedness.” 1Co 5:8