The words , , and are all translated ‘life,’ but there is a great deal of difference between them.<\/p>\n
is the manner or means of life, or subsistence in this world. The poor widow cast in all her living. Mar 12:44. We pray for the powers that be “that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.” 1Ti 2:2. “No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life.” 2Ti 2:4. “The pride of life is not of the Father.” 1Jn 2:16<\/p>\n
denotes more life in its activity and vigour: not merely existence, but existence in relation to a proper sphere. “In him [Christ] was life.” Joh 1:4. The Holy Spirit is “the Spirit of life,” and the Lord Jesus is “the Prince of life.” Rom 8:2; Act 3:15. The word is often used in conjunction with everlasting or eternal, Mat 19:29; Mat 25:46, etc. Of some the Lord said, “Ye have no life in you,” Joh 6:53; they were spiritually dead, “alienated from the life of God.” Eph 4:18<\/p>\n
is life in the sense of the living soul. See Mat 10:28; Mat 10:39; Mat 16:25-26; Joh 10:11; Joh 10:15; Joh 10:17; Act 15:24; Act 15:26; Act 20:10, and other passages, where the word is translated both ‘life’ and ‘soul.’<\/p>\n
(from , ‘to breathe’) is ‘breath,’ ‘spirit,’ and is only once translated ‘life’ in the A.V., Rev 13:15, where it should be ‘breath.’<\/p>\n
23. LIFE. LIVING The words , , and are all translated ‘life,’ but there is a great deal of difference between them. is the manner or means of life, or subsistence in this world. The poor widow cast in all her living. Mar 12:44. We pray for the powers that be “that we may lead … Continue reading “23. LIFE. LIVING”<\/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-62866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62866","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=62866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}