denotes, primarily, “an offering of firstfruits” (akin to aparchomai, “to make a beginning;” in sacrifices, “to offer firstfruits”). “Though the English word is plural in each of its occurrences save Rom 11:16<\/span>, the Greek word is always singular. Two Hebrew words are thus translated, one meaning the “chief” or “principal part,” e.g., Num 18:12<\/span>; Pro 3:9<\/span>; the other, “the earliest ripe of the crop or of the tree,” e.g., Exo 23:16<\/span>; Neh 10:35<\/span>; they are found together, e.g., in Exo 23:19<\/span>, “the first of the firstfruits.” <\/p>\n “The term is applied in things spiritual, (a) to the presence of the Holy Spirit with the believer as the firstfruits of the full harvest of the Cross, Rom 8:23<\/span>; (b) to Christ Himself in resurrection in relation to all believers who have fallen asleep, 1Co 15:20<\/span>, 1Co 15:23<\/span>; (c) to the earliest believers in a country in relation to those of their countrymen subsequently converted, Rom 16:5<\/span>; 1Co 16:15<\/span>; (d) to the believers of this age in relation to the whole of the redeemed, 2Th 2:13<\/span> (see Note below); Jam 1:18<\/span>. Cp. Rev 14:4<\/span>.” * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, p. 271.] <\/p>\n Notes: (1) In Jam 1:15<\/span> the qualifying phrase, “a kind of,” may suggest a certain falling short, on the part of those mentioned, of what they might be. (2) In 2Th 2:13<\/span>, instead of ap’ arches, “from the beginning,” there is an alternative reading, well supported, viz., aparchen, “(God chose you) as firstfruits.” <\/p>\n Firstfruit(s) denotes, primarily, “an offering of firstfruits” (akin to aparchomai, “to make a beginning;” in sacrifices, “to offer firstfruits”). “Though the English word is plural in each of its occurrences save Rom 11:16, the Greek word is always singular. Two Hebrew words are thus translated, one meaning the “chief” or “principal part,” e.g., Num 18:12; … Continue reading “Firstfruit(s)”<\/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-48112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48112","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=48112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"