Mashiach, the anointed, is an official title in the O.T. of those who were to rule for God. 1Sa 12:3; 1Sa 12:5; 1Sa 26:9; 1Sa 26:11; 1Sa 26:16; 2Ch 6:42; Isa 45:1. In the N.T. the title is restricted to the Lord Jesus – , the Christ – as the One anointed, not with oil, but with the Holy Spirit by God the Father. This had been predicted in Psa 45:7, of which John the Baptist was the witness. Mar 1:10; Joh 1:32-34: cf. also Act 10:38. He was called God’s anointed by Hannah, 1Sa 2:10 and by David, Psa 2:2. Daniel spoke of Messiah the Prince, and that He would be cut off and have nothing. Dan 9:25-26. The Samaritans as well as the Jews expected this anointed One, the Christ; and when He appeared souls were brought into living intercourse with Him, and owned Him as the promised One. Joh 1:41; Joh 4:25. In these two passages the Lord is called ‘Messias,’ the word being simply the Greek form of the Hebrew word mashiach. In other places a translation is used and He is called , ‘the Christ,’ the anointed One. See CHRIST.<\/p>\n
Anointed, the Mashiach, the anointed, is an official title in the O.T. of those who were to rule for God. 1Sa 12:3; 1Sa 12:5; 1Sa 26:9; 1Sa 26:11; 1Sa 26:16; 2Ch 6:42; Isa 45:1. In the N.T. the title is restricted to the Lord Jesus – , the Christ – as the One anointed, not … Continue reading “Anointed, the”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}