Ambassador, Ambassage
Ambassador, Ambassage
AMBASSADOR, AMBASSAGE.As diplomatic agents of sovereigns or other persons in high authority, ambassadors are frequently mentioned in OT and Apocrypha from the days of Moses (see below) to those of the Maccabees (1Ma 9:70; 1Ma 11:9; 1Ma 14:21; 1Ma 15:17). Insult to their persons was a sufficient casus belli (2Sa 10:4 ff.). In several passages (e.g. Num 20:14; Num 21:21, Deu 2:26, Jdg 11:12; Jdg 11:19, 2Sa 5:11, 2Ki 19:9) the messengers of EV [Note: English Version.] are practically ambassadors, as the Heb. word is elsewhere rendered (2Ch 35:21, Isa 30:4, Eze 17:15). Jos 9:4, however, should be read as in RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] . The ambassador of Jer 49:14 (= Oba 1:1) is probably an angel. In NT the word is used only metaphorically (2Co 5:20, Eph 6:20).
Ambassage, the mission of an ambassador (2Ma 4:11 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ), is used also as a collective for ambassadors themselves (Luk 14:32; Luk 19:14 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ). In 1Ma 14:23 read with RV [Note: Revised Version.] the copy of their words.
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Ambassador, Ambassage
denotes (a) “to be elder or eldest, prior in birth or age;” (b) “to be an ambassador,” 2Co 5:20; Eph 6:20; for Phm 1:9 see under AGED. There is a suggestion that to be an “ambassador” for Christ involves the experience suggested by the word “elder.” Elder men were chosen as “ambassadors.”
primarily, “age, eldership, rank,” hence, “an embassy or ambassage,” is used in Luk 14:32; in Luk 19:14, RV, “ambassage,” for AV, “message.”