Occasion
Occasion
o-kazhun: The uses in English Versions of the Bible are all modern, but in Jer 2:24 occasion is employed (both in Hebrew and English) as a euphemism for time of conception of offspring.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Occasion
(Lat. occasio, a happening) The agency of action. The proximate or historical cause. Any actual thing or event consideied as the historical cause of another. The occasion of anything is its antecedent reference, the cause, its logical reference. Syn. with actual. See Cause, Chance. — J.K.F.
Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Occasion
properly “a starting point,” was used to denote “a base of operations in war.” In the NT it occurs as follows: “(a) the Law provided sin with a base of operations for its attack upon the soul, Rom 7:8, Rom 7:11; (b) the irreproachable conduct of the Apostle provided his friends with a base of operations against his detractors, 2Co 5:12; (c) by refusing temporal support at Corinth he deprived these detractors of their base of operations against him, 2Co 11:12; (d) Christian freedom is not to provide a base of operations for the flesh, Gal 5:13; (e) unguarded behavior on the part of young widows (and the same is true of all believers) would provide Satan with a base of operations against the faith, 1Ti 5:14.” * [* From Notes on Galatians, by Hogg and Vine, P. 269.]
The word is found frequently in the papyri with meanings which illustrate those in the NT. In the Sept., Pro 9:9; Eze 5:7.
Notes: (1) For the RV renderings “occasion (or ‘occasions’) of stumbling,” “occasion of falling,” see FALLING, B, Note (3), OFFENSE. (2) In 2Co 8:8, AV, the phrase “by occasion of” translates the preposition dia, “through, by means of” (RV, “through”).