Proportion
Proportion
The Greek word is of frequent occurrence in classical writings, but in the NT it is found only in Rom 12:6, Whether prophecy [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith (AV_; according to the proportion of our faith; RVm_ according to the proportion of the faith). Interpreters are divided as to whether the faith is to be taken subjectively (Meyer, Sanday-Headlam) or objectively (Vaughan, Liddon). The first alternative would mean that they who had received the gift of prophecy were to exercise it in consistency with the extent (or limits) of their own faith, the measure of which had been allotted to them (Rom 12:3); the second, in harmony with the faith as referring to the gospel as a whole. The latter is very attractive, but the usage of the NT is against it. There is no instance in the Epistles of St. Paul of the use of in the sense of the gospel. It is, however, found in Jud 1:5; Jud 1:20, and is one of the indications of its late date. The must be taken as parallel with, and not different from, (Jud 1:3). (For an elaborate examination of Analogy considered as a guide to Truth see the work of J. Buchanan, published under that title, Edinburgh, 1864.)
John Reid.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Proportion
pro-porshun: Occurs once in the sense of space as the translation of , maar, void or open space (1Ki 7:36. the King James Version margin Hebrew ‘nakedness,’ the Revised Version (British and American) space); once in the obsolete sense of form as the translation of erekh, array, or row (Job 41:12, the Revised Version (British and American) frame); and once in the sense of measure as the translation of analoga, proportion equality (Rom 12:6, the proportion of faith, the Revised Version (British and American) the proportion of our faith). Proportionally occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 13:5, analogos, the Revised Version (British and American) in like proportion, margin correspondently.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Proportion
Cp. Eng., “analogy,” signified in classical Greek “the right relation, the concidence or agreement existing or demanded according to the standard of the several relations, not agreement as equality” (Cremer). It is used in Rom 12:6, where “let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith,” RV, recalls Rom 12:3. It is a warning against going beyond what God has given and faith receives. This meaning, rather than the other rendering, “according to the analogy of the faith,” is in keeping with the context. The word analogia is not to be rendered literally. “Proportion” here represents its true meaning. The fact that there is a definite article before “faith” in the original does not necessarily afford an intimation that the faith, the body of Christian doctrine, is here in view. The presence of the definite article is due to the fact that faith is an abstract noun. The meaning “the faith” is not relevant to the context.