Innocent
(prop. , ). The Hebrews considered innocence as consisting chiefly in an exemption from external faults committed contrary to the law hence they often join innocent with hands (Gen 37:22; Psa 24:4). I will wash my hands in innocency (Psa 26:6).; Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency (Psa 73:13). Josephus admits of no other sins than those actions which are put in execution (Ant. 12:7, 1). Sins in thought, in his account, are not punished by God. This is a very different standard of morality from that of the Gospel (Mat 5:28; Joh 3:15), or even of the O.T. (Psa 51:6). To be innocent is used sometimes for being exempt from punishment. I will not treat you, as one innocent (Jer 46:28); literally, I will not make thee innocent; I will chastise thee, but like a kind father. Jeremiah (Jer 49:12), speaking to the Edomites, says, They who have not (so much) deserved to drink of the cup of my wrath, have tasted of it. Nah 1:3 declares that God is ready to exercise vengeance; he will make no one innocent; he will spare no one; (Exo 34:7, Heb.), Thou shalt make no one innocent; no sin shall remain unpunished. With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure (Psa 18:26); thou treatest the just as just, the good as good; thou never dost confound the guilty with the innocent.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Innocent (2)
a Russian prelate, born in 1800 at Sievsk. At school he distinguished himself by his superior ability over his fellow-students, especially displaying great oratorical talent. When twenty-four years old, in accordance with the Russian custom of the better class of society destined for the service of the Church, he entered the monastic order. Two years after, he was called as an officer to the theological academy of St. Petersburg, and in 1830 was made rector of the high school at Kief. After filling various positions of great eminence in his Church, he was made a member of the Holy Synod in 1856. He died at Odessa May 6, 1857. His works are, The last Days of Christ’s terrestrial Life (1828):- The Life of the Apostle Paul (eod.): Discourses and Sermons (1843,3 vols.): Of Sin and its Consequences (1844); etc. Hoefer, Nouv. Biogr. Gneral 25, 927.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Innocent
A word often used in the O.T. in opposition to those manifesting wickedness. It occurs only twice in the N.T.: as uttered by Judas in reference to the Lord, to whom it could be truthfully applied as ‘guiltless;’ and by Pilate in reference to himself. Mat 27:4; Mat 27:24. It was the true state of Adam and Eve before they fell. See HOLINESS.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Innocent
primarily denotes “unpunished” (a, negative, thoe, “a penalty”); then, “innocent,” Mat 27:4, “innocent blood,” i.e., the blood of an “innocent” person, the word “blood” being used both by synecdoche (a part standing for the whole), and by metonymy (one thing standing for another), i.e., for death by execution (some mss. have dikaion, “righteous”); Mat 27:24, where Pilate speaks of himself as “innocent.”
lit., “not bad” (a, negative, kakos, “bad”), denotes “guileless, innocent,” Rom 16:18, RV, “innocent” (AV, “simple”); “harmless” in Heb 7:26. See HARMLESS.