{"id":62867,"date":"2022-09-29T01:11:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/life-living-lifetime-life-giving\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:11:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:11:55","slug":"life-living-lifetime-life-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/life-living-lifetime-life-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, Living, Lifetime, Life-giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Life, Living, Lifetime, Life-giving<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> (Eng., &#8220;zoo,&#8221; &#8220;zoology&#8221;) is used in the NT &#8220;of life as a principle, life in the absolute sense, life as God has it, that which the Father has in Himself, and which He gave to the Incarnate Son to have in Himself, <span class='bible'>Joh 5:26<\/span>, and which the Son manifested in the world, <span class='bible'>1Jo 1:2<\/span>. From this life man has become alienated in consequence of the Fall, <span class='bible'>Eph 4:18<\/span>, and of this life men become partakers through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, <span class='bible'>Joh 3:15<\/span>, who becomes its Author to all such as trust in Him, <span class='bible'>Act 3:15<\/span>, and who is therefore said to be &#8216;the life&#8217; of the believer, <span class='bible'>Col 3:4<\/span>, for the life that He gives He maintains, <span class='bible'>Joh 6:35<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Joh 6:63<\/span>. Eternal life is the present actual possession of the believer because of his relationship with Christ, <span class='bible'>Joh 5:24<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Jo 3:14<\/span>, and that it will one day extend its domain to the sphere of the body is assured by the Resurrection of Christ, <span class='bible'>2Co 5:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ti 1:10<\/span>. This life is not merely a principle of power and mobility, however, for it has moral associations which are inseparable from it, as of holiness and righteousness. Death and sin, life and holiness, are frequently contrasted in the Scriptures. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Zoe is also used of that which is the common possession of all animals and men by nature, <span class='bible'>Act 17:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Jo 5:16<\/span>, and of the present sojourn of man upon the earth with reference to its duration, <span class='bible'>Luk 16:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 15:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Ti 4:8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Pe 3:10<\/span>. &#8216;This life&#8217; is a term equivalent to &#8216;the gospel,&#8217; &#8216;the faith,&#8217; &#8216;Christianity,&#8217; <span class='bible'>Act 5:20<\/span>.&#8221;* [* From Notes on Galatians, by Hogg and Vine. pp. 324,325.] <\/p>\n<p> Death came through sin, <span class='bible'>Rom 5:12<\/span>, which is rebellion against God. Sin thus involved the forfeiting of the &#8220;life.&#8221; &#8220;The life of the flesh is in the blood,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Lev 17:11<\/span>. Therefore the impartation of &#8220;life&#8221; to the sinner must be by a death caused by the shedding of that element which is the life of the flesh. &#8220;It is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life&#8221; (id., RV). The separation from God caused by the forfeiting of the &#8220;life&#8221; could be removed only by a sacrifice in which the victim and the offerer became identified. This which was appointed in the typical offerings in Israel received its full accomplishment in the voluntary sacrifice of Christ. The shedding of the blood in the language of Scripture involves the taking or the giving of the &#8220;life.&#8221; Since Christ had no sins of his own to die for, His death was voluntary and vicarious, <span class='bible'>Joh 10:15<\/span> with <span class='bible'>Isa 53:5<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Isa 53:10<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Isa 53:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Co 5:21<\/span>. In His sacrifice He endured the Divine judgment due to man&#8217;s sin. By this means the believer becomes identified with Him in His deathless &#8220;life,&#8221; through His resurrection, and enjoys conscious and eternal fellowship with God. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> (cp. Eng. words beginning with bio-), is used in three respects (a) of &#8220;the period or duration of life,&#8221; e.g., in the AV of <span class='bible'>1Pe 4:3<\/span>, &#8220;the time past of our life&#8221; (the RV follows the mss. which omit &#8220;of our life&#8221;); <span class='bible'>Luk 8:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ti 2:4<\/span>; (b) of &#8220;the manner of life, life in regard to its moral conduct,&#8221; <span class='bible'>1Ti 2:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Jo 2:16<\/span>; (c) of &#8220;the means of life, livelihood, maintenance, living,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Mar 12:44<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 8:43<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 15:12<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Luk 15:30<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 21:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Jo 3:17<\/span>, &#8220;goods,&#8221; RV (AV, &#8220;good&#8221;). See GOODS. <\/p>\n<p> Note: &#8220;While zoe is &#8220;life&#8217; intensive &#8230; bios is &#8216;life&#8217; extensive. &#8230; In bios, used as manner of &#8216;life,&#8217; there is an ethical sense often inhering which, in classical Greek at least, zoe does not possess.&#8221; In Scripture zoe is &#8220;the nobler word, expressing as it continually does, all of highest and best which the saints posses in God&#8221; (Trench, Syn. xxvii). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> besides its meanings, &#8220;heart, mind, soul,&#8221; denotes &#8220;life&#8221; in two chief respects, (a) &#8220;breath of life, the natural life,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 2:20<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mat 6:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 10:45<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 12:22<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 20:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rev 8:9<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rev 12:11<\/span> (cp. <span class='bible'>Lev 17:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Est 8:11<\/span>); (b) &#8220;the seat of personality,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Luk 9:24<\/span>, explained in <span class='bible'>Luk 9:25<\/span> as &#8220;own self.&#8221; See list under SOUL. See also HEART, MIND. <\/p>\n<p> Notes: (1) &#8220;Speaking generally, psuche, is the individual life, the living being, whereas zoe, is the life of that being, cp. <span class='bible'>Psa 66:9<\/span>, &#8216;God &#8230; which holdeth our soul (psuche) in life (zoe),&#8217; and <span class='bible'>Joh 10:10<\/span>, &#8216;I came that they may have life (zoe),&#8217; with <span class='bible'>Joh 10:11<\/span>, &#8216;The Good Shepherd layeth down His life (psuche) for the sheep.'&#8221; * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, p. 325.] (2) In <span class='bible'>Rev 13:15<\/span>, AV, pneuma, &#8220;breath,&#8221; is translated &#8220;life&#8221; (RV, &#8220;breath&#8221;). (3) In <span class='bible'>2Co 1:8<\/span>, &#8220;we despaired even of life,&#8221; the verb zao, &#8220;to live,&#8221; is used in the infinitive mood, as a noun, and translated &#8220;life&#8221; (lit., &#8220;living&#8221;). In <span class='bible'>Heb 2:15<\/span> the infinitive mood of the same verb is translated &#8220;lifetime.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> from bioo, &#8220;to spend one&#8217;s life, to live,&#8221; denotes &#8220;a manner of life,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Act 26:4<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;a manner of life,&#8221; <span class='bible'>2Ti 3:10<\/span>; see CONDUCT. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;behavior, conduct,&#8221; is translated &#8220;manner of life&#8221; (AV &#8220;conversation&#8221;) in the RV of <span class='bible'>Gal 1:13<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Ti 4:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Pe 1:18<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Pe 3:16<\/span>; &#8220;living,&#8221; in <span class='bible'>1Pe 1:15<\/span>. See BEHAVIOR. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;pertaining to life&#8221; (bios), is translated &#8220;of this life,&#8221; in <span class='bible'>Luk 21:34<\/span>, with reference to cares; in <span class='bible'>1Co 6:3<\/span>, &#8220;(things) that pertain to this life,&#8221; and <span class='bible'>1Co 6:4<\/span>, &#8220;(things) pertaining to this life,&#8221; i.e., matters of this world, concerning which Christians at Corinth were engaged in public lawsuits one with another; such matters were to be regarded as relatively unimportant in view of the great tribunals to come under the jurisdiction of saints hereafter. Moulton and Milligan (Vocab.) illustrate the word from phrases in the papyri, e.g., &#8220;business (documents);&#8221; &#8220;business concerning my livelihood;&#8221; &#8220;(stories) of ordinary life.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> denotes &#8220;lifeless, inanimate&#8221; (a, negative, and psuche, see A, No. 3), &#8220;without life,&#8221; <span class='bible'>1Co 14:7<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;to make alive, cause to live, quicken&#8221; (from zoe, &#8220;life,&#8221; and poieo, &#8220;to make&#8221;), is used as follows: &#8220;(a) of God as the bestower of every kind of life in the universe, <span class='bible'>1Ti 6:13<\/span> (zoogoneo, to preserve alive, is the alternative reading adopted by most editors; see LIVE, No. 6), and, particularly, of resurrection life, <span class='bible'>Joh 5:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 4:17<\/span>; (b) of Christ, who also is the bestower of resurrection life, <span class='bible'>Joh 5:21<\/span> (2nd part); <span class='bible'>1Co 15:45<\/span>; cp. <span class='bible'>1Co 15:22<\/span>; (c) of the resurrection of Christ in &#8220;the body of His glory,&#8221; <span class='bible'>1Pe 3:18<\/span>; (d) of the power of reproduction inherent in seed, which presents a certain analogy with resurrection, <span class='bible'>1Co 15:36<\/span>; (e) of the &#8216;changing,&#8217; or &#8216;fashioning anew,&#8217; of the bodies of the living, which corresponds with, and takes place at the same time as, the resurrection of the dead in Christ, <span class='bible'>Rom 8:11<\/span>; (f) of the impartation of spiritual life, and the communication of spiritual sustenance generally, <span class='bible'>Joh 6:63<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Co 3:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Gal 3:21<\/span>.&#8221; * [* From Notes on Galatians, by Hogg and Vine, pp. 154,155.] See QUICKEN, and cp. sunzoopoieo, &#8220;to quicken together with,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Eph 2:5<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Col 2:13<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p> Notes: (1) For the verb diago, &#8220;to lead a life,&#8221; see LIVE, No. 7. (2) For politeuo, in <span class='bible'>Phi 1:27<\/span>, RV, &#8220;let your manner of life be,&#8221; see LIVE, No. 8. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life, Living, Lifetime, Life-giving (Eng., &#8220;zoo,&#8221; &#8220;zoology&#8221;) is used in the NT &#8220;of life as a principle, life in the absolute sense, life as God has it, that which the Father has in Himself, and which He gave to the Incarnate Son to have in Himself, Joh 5:26, and which the Son manifested in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/life-living-lifetime-life-giving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life, Living, Lifetime, Life-giving&#8221;<\/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-62867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62867","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=62867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}