Corruption
Corruption
(prop. some form of , shachah”, ). This term is used in Scripture to signify the putrefaction of dead bodies (Psa 16:10), the blemishes which rendered an animal unfit for sacrifice (Lev 22:25), sinful inclinations, habits, and practices, which defile and ruin men (Rom 8:21; 2Pe 2:12; 2Pe 2:19), everlasting ruin (Gal 6:8), men in their mortal and imperfect state (1Co 15:42; 1Co 15:50).
MOUNT OF CORRUPTION ( , Sept. v. r. , Vulg. mons offensionis), a hill in the neighborhood of Jerusalem, where Solomon had established the worship of the Ammonitish deity Milcom, which Josiah overthrew (2Ki 23:13). Tradition assigns the locality of the Mount of Offence to the eminence immediately south of the Mount of Olives (see Barclay, City of the Great King, p. 64 sq.; Stanley, Palest. p. 185, note). SEE JERUSALEM.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Corruption
CORRUPTION.Jewish anthropology conceived of man as composed of two elements, the physical body and the soul. At death the soul went to Sheol, and the body decayed. The term corruption came, therefore, to stand for the physical aspects of that state which followed death and preceded the resurrection. In this sense it is used in Act 2:27; Act 2:31; Act 13:34-37, 1Co 15:42; 1Co 15:50; cf. also 1Co 15:53-54. There is no evidence that it had a moral force, although some have found such an implication in Gal 6:8, where the reference is rather to a belief that the wicked will not share in the glories of the resurrection. Neither is it a term to indicate annihilation, which idea does not seem to have been held by the Palestinian Jews. Jesus through His resurrection is represented (2Ti 1:10) as having brought life and incorruption to light. The resurrection as a part of salvation is thus placed in sharpest contrast with the condition of the personality following physical death, since, as St. Paul says (2Co 5:1 f.), for a man who is saved, the decomposition of the physical body is but an occasion for the assumption of an incorruptible heavenly body.
Shailer Mathews.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Corruption
ko-rupshun: The Hebrew words , mishhath, , mashhath, , mashhth, and their Greek equivalents, , phthora, and , diaphthora, with numerous derivatives and cognate verbs, imply primarily physical degeneration and decay (Job 17:14; Act 2:27, etc.). The term , shahath, which the King James Version translates with corruption in Jon 2:6, ought to be rendered pit,. as in Psa 30:9; Psa 35:7 et passim, while shahath bel in Isa 38:17 means the pit of nothingness, i.e. of destruction.
Figurative: At an early time we find the above-given words in a non-literal sense denoting moral depravity and corruption (Gen 6:11; Exo 32:7; Hos 9:9; Gal 6:8, etc.), which ends in utter moral ruin and hopelessness, the second death. The question has been raised whether the meaning of these words might be extended so as to include the idea of final destruction and annihilation of the spirit. Upon careful examination, however, this question must be denied both from the standpoint of the Old Testament and of the New Testament. Apart from other considerations we see this from the metaphors used in the Scriptures to illustrate the condition of corruption, such as the unquenchable fire, the worm which dieth not (Mar 9:43, Mar 9:18; compare Isa 66:24), and sleep (Dan 12:2), where a careful distinction is made between the blissful state after death of the righteous and the everlasting disgrace of the godless. The later Jewish theology is also fully agreed on this point. The meaning of the words cannot therefore extend beyond the idea of utter moral degradation and depravity.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Corruption
Physical decomposition
– General references
Lev 22:25
– After death
Gen 3:19; Job 17:14; Job 21:26; Job 34:15; Psa 16:10; Psa 49:9; Psa 104:29; Ecc 3:20; Ecc 12:7; Jon 2:6; Act 2:27; Act 2:31; Act 13:34-37; 1Co 15:42; 1Co 15:50
Figurative:
– Of sin
Isa 38:17; Rom 8:21; Gal 6:8; 2Pe 1:4; 2Pe 2:12; 2Pe 2:19
– Mount of
2Ki 23:13
Judicial
Court; Government; Judge
Ecclesiastical
Church, The Collective Body of Believers, Corruption in; Minister, A Sacred Teacher
Political
Bribery; Civil Service; Government; Politics
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
CORRUPTION
(1) Of the Body after Death
Gen 3:19; Job 17:14; Job 19:26; Job 21:26; Psa 49:9; Psa 104:29
Ecc 3:20; Ecc 12:7; Joh 11:39; Act 13:36; 1Co 15:42
–SEE Mortality, MORTALITY
& MORTALITY
(2) Moral
Gen 6:12; Isa 28:8; Jer 5:28; Eze 7:23; Mic 6:12; Mat 23:28
Luk 11:39; Rom 1:29
–SEE Depravity, NATION, THE
–in the Church. SEE ISRAEL-THE JEWS
–in Politics. SEE Bribery, NATION, THE
Injustice, INJUSTICE
–Social. SEE Nation, NATION, THE
Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible
Corruption
Isa 38:17 (b) Hezekiah is comparing hell to a place of seething rottenness, filled with terrible wickedness, from which he has been graciously delivered.
Dan 10:8 (a) When Daniel examined his own life, faith, and many virtues in the light of GOD’s presence, they seemed wholly filthy and vile.
Rom 8:21 (b) The bondage of living in this world of sin and death is compared to vile, rotten, evil things. (See also 2Pe 1:4).