Castaway
Castaway
This word has disappeared from the Revised Version (1Co 9:27), and its place has been taken by rejected (). The word is the negation of acceptable, accepted after trial, and means unacceptable, rejected after trial, as in the Septuagint Isa 1:22 there is found your silver is rejected ( ). St. Paul, however, somewhat extends the metaphor, for the context shows that the ancient games, or, as he is writing to Corinthians, the Isthmian games, are in his mind. He contemplates the possibility of rejection, after having been successful in the contest, for not having contended in accordance with the rules. It would he distressing in the extreme after all his exacting training and his arduous struggle to be found by the umpire disqualified for neglect of the conditions. To have preached to others, and vet, through lack of Christian watchfulness, to have allowed the flesh to re-assert the mastery and so to become a castaway, to be rejected in the final scrutiny, is a possibility which urges the Apostle himself to more arduous exertions and lends earnestness to his appeal to the Corinthians. For an apposite parallel see 2 Clement, vii. See also article Assurance.
T. Nicol.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Castaway
Gr. adokimos, (1 Cor. 9:27), one regarded as unworthy (R.V., “rejected”); elsewhere rendered “reprobate” (2 Tim. 3:8, etc.); “rejected” (Heb. 6:8, etc.).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Castaway
kasta-wa (, adokimos, from dokimazo, I test, I approve after testing, hence, approved after being tested): This word is rendered castaway only in the King James Version: I myself should be a castaway (rejected the Revised Version (British and American), the American Standard Revised Version, 1Co 9:27). But the same word occurs a number of times usually translated reprobate (Rom 1:28; 2Co 13:5-7; 2Ti 3:8; Tit 1:16); rejected (Heb 6:8).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Castaway
. Paul kept his body under control, lest, though he had preached to others, he himself should be a castaway. 1Co 9:27. The same word is translated ‘reprobate’ in Rom 1:28; 2Co 13:5-7; 2Ti 3:8; Tit 1:16; and ‘rejected’ in Heb 6:8. It is the negative form of ‘approved,’ Rom 16:10; etc.