Judging, Judgment
Judging, Judgment
jujing, jujment: Often in the Old Testament for to act as a magistrate (Exo 18:13; Deu 1:16; Deu 16:18, etc.), justice being administered generally by elders (Exo 18:13-27), or kings (1Sa 8:20) or priests (Deu 18:15); applied to God as the Supreme Judge (Psa 9:7, Psa 9:8; Psa 10:18; Psa 96:13; Mic 4:3, etc.; Psa 7:8 : Yahweh ministereth judgment, vividly describes a court scene, with Yahweh as Judge).
Often in the New Testament, ethically, for (1) to decide, give a verdict, declare an opinion (Greek krno); (2) to investigate, scrutinize (Greek anakrno); (3) to discriminate, distinguish (Greek diakrno). For (1), see Luk 7:43; Act 15:19; for (2) see 1Co 2:15; 1Co 4:3; for (3) see 1Co 11:31; 1Co 14:29 m. Used also forensically in Luk 22:30; Act 25:10; and applied to God in Joh 5:22; Heb 10:30. The judgments of God are the expression of His justice, the formal declarations of His judgments, whether embodied in words (Deu 5:1 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) statutes), or deeds (Exo 6:6; Rev 16:7), or in decisions that are yet to be published (Psa 36:6). Man’s consciousness of guilt inevitably associates God’s judgments as declarations of the Divine justice, with his own condemnation, i.e. he knows that a strict exercise of justice means his condemnation, and thus judgment and condemnation become in his mind synonymous (Rom 5:16); hence, the prayer of Psa 143:2, Enter not into judgment; also, Joh 6:29, the resurrection of judgment (the King James Version damnation); 1Co 11:29, eateth and drinketh judgment (the King James Version damnation).