Acts 7 verse 36

Acts 7 verse 36

He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.    (KJV)

This one led them out, working wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and forty years in the wilderness.      (IB)

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Retranslation: 
         This one, roused from the sleep of Confinement, having collected his spiritual senses and now awake, led others to the Market Place of Ideas, and the Street of Learning, where they could buy the redeeming ideas of Truth with the honest labor of self-instruction and the humble service of listening to their Leader.

This one worked “wonders and miracles” in the land of Confinement, in the Red Sea, “the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear”, and in the loneliness of doubt*, the wilderness  called: Seek ye repentance.

This one, performed prodigies of learning, acquiring extraordinary knowledge of Something before unknown through remarkable instruction and study beyond the common order or method; wonderful experiences, not in accordance with established laws or principles; rare and special observations that were not customary in the land of Confinement; and through other signs, tokens, and indications sufficient for the purpose of discovering what was not before known in the world of Limits.

*Doubt, L. dubare, to be in two minds. 

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This one 3778 

led out 1806 exago, from 1537 and 59; to lead forth:---bring forth (out), fetch (lead) out.

59 agorazo, from 58; properly to go to market, i.e. (by implication) to purchase; specifically to redeem:-----buy, redeem.

58 agora, from ageiro (to gather; probably akin to 1453); properly the town-square (as a place of public resort); by implication a market or thoroughfare:-----market, marketplace, street.

1453 egeiro, probably akin to the base of 58 (through the idea of collecting one’s faculties); to waken (transitive or intransitive), i.e. rouse (literally from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence):----awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, rise (again, up), stand, take up.

them 846

doing 4160 poieo, apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct):-----abide, agree, appoint, avenge, band together, be bear, bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, content, continue, deal, without any delay, (would) do, doing, execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, journeying, keep, lay, wait, lighten the ship, make, mean, none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, have purged, purpose, put, raising up, secure, shew, shoot out, spend, take, tarry, transgress the law, work, yield. Compare 4238.

wonders 5059 teras, of uncertain affinity; a prodigy or omen:-----wonder.

prodigy (1828 Dict. def.): [L. prodigium, from prodigio, to shoot out, drive out, properly to spread to a great extent.]

1. Anything out of the ordinary process of nature, and so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; as a prodigy of learning.
2. Something extraordinary from which omens are drawn; portent. Thus eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.

learn (ibid.) To acquire knowledge or ideas of something before unknown. We learn things by instruction, by study, and by experience and observation. It is much easier to learn what is right, than to unlearn what is wrong.

“Now learn the parable of the fig tree.”  Matt. xxiv.

portent (ibid.) An omen of ill; any previous sign or prodigy indicating the approach of evil or calamity.

extraordinary (ibid.): L. extraordinarius, from ordo, order.]

1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not in the usual, customary or regular course; not ordinary.
2. Exceeding common degree or measure; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful.
3. Special; particular; sent for a special purpose, or on a special occasion; as an extraordinary courier or messenger.

regular (ibid.): [L. regularis, from regula, a rule, from rego, to rule.]

1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law or principle, to a prescribed mode or to established customary forms; as a regular epic poem; a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular plan; a regular building.
2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in a course or practice; as regular in diet; regular in attending on divine worship.
3. In geometry, a regular figure is one whose sides and angles are equal, as a square, a cube, or an equilateral triangle. Regular figures of more than three or four sides are usually called regular polygons.
4. Instituted or initiated according to established forms or discipline; as a regular physician.
5. Methodical; orderly; as a regular kind of sensuality or indulgence.
6. Periodical; as the regular return of day and night; a regular trade wind or monsoon.
7. Pursued with uniformity or steadiness; as a regular trade.

signs 4592 semeion, neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of 4591; an indication, especially ceremonial or supernatural:-----miracle, sign, token, wonder.

indication (ibid.): [L. indico, in + dico, to show.]
1.  The act of pointing out.

2.  Mark; token; sign; symptom; whatever serves to discover what is not before known,    or otherwise obvious.

The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places, are plain
 indications of their weariness.   Addison.
3.  In medicine, any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
4.  Discovery made; intelligence given.
5.  Explanation; display.

Indicate (ibid.):

1. To show; to point out; to discover; to direct the mind to a knowledge of something not seen, or something that will probably occur in the future. Thus, fermentation indicates a certain degree of heat in a liquor. A heavy swell of the sea in calm weather often indicates a storm at a distance. A particular kind of cloud in the west at evening indicates the approach of rain.

in 1722

land 1093 ge, contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):-----country, earth, earthly, ground, land, world.

Egypt 125 Aigyptos, of uncertain derivation; Aegyptus, the land of the Nile:----Egypt.

H4714 misrayim, dual of H4693; Misrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:----Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

H4693 masor, the same as 4692 in the sense of a limit; Egypt (as the border of Palestine):

---besieged places, defense, fortified.

H4692 masor or masur, from 6696; something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness:

----besieged, bulwark, defense, fenced, fortress, siege, hold, strong hold, tower.

H6696 sur, a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literal or figurative, formative or hostile):------adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind, bind up, cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.

in 1722

Red 2063 erythros, of uncertain affinity; red, i.e. (with 2281) the Red Sea:----red.

Sea 2281 thalassa, probably prolonged from 251; the sea (generally or specifically):----sea.

251 hals, a primary word; “salt”:----salt.

The Red Sea: “the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear”   SH p. 566:2.

in 1722

desert 2048 eremos, of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, 5561 being implied):-----desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.

5561 chora, feminine of a derivative of the base of 5490 through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. a space of territory (more of less extensive; often including its inhabitants):----region, ground, fields, land, county, coast. Compare 5117.

Wilderness. Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence. SH p. 597:16.

forty 5062 + years 2094 = repentance completed sufficiently = self-sacrifice understood as necessary = capacity to obey is now possible 

Acts 7 verse 35

Acts 7 verse 35

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.     (KJV)

This Moses, whom they denied, saying, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge, this one God has sent as ruler and redeemer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the Bush.     (IB)

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Retranslation: This Moses (this one being pulled out of the waters of Confinement), they denied, saying, WHO set you apart from us, opposed to us; and WHO designated these infinite, anti-Confinement contradictions to be first, taking precedence “from the beginning” over our well-known thoughts of Confinement; and WHO appointed “infinity” as the judger of what is right? We, in the land of Confinement, are not governed by this judge. Here, it is self-evident that all things are finite!

This Moses was pulled out of the waters of Confinement by the power of the Message experienced in the fiery baptism of the Divine Mind. This one is now set apart from you, consecrated to Truth, and he will rule over you, and he will become first, taking precedence "from the beginning" over old thoughts, and you will remember them no more; and he will judge rightly. And this Moses is a pastor, sent to loose you from Confinement. His message is: The price of delivery is atonement. 

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NOTE: It might help to think of the “waters” as consciousness, the mind. It can be instructed in Truth or it can be “instructed” in nonsense. In either case, it is the matrix in which you swim. “They”, the ones denying Moses, are Moses’ lingering thoughts of Confinement which he is being sent to to save himself from.

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This 5126

Moses (3475) H4872 moseh, from 4871; drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mesheh, the Israelite lawgiver:-----Moses.

H4871 masa, a primitive root; to pull out (lit. or fig.):---draw, draw out.

they 3739

denied 720 arneomai, perhaps from G1 (as a negative particle) and the middle of 4483; to contradict, i.e. disavow, reject, abnegate:----deny, refuse.

4483 rheo, from certain tenses of which a prolonged form ereo is used; and both as alternate for 2036; perhaps akin (or identical) with 4482 (through the idea of pouring forth); to utter, i.e. speak or say:-----command, make, say, speak (of). Compare 3004.

saying 2036

Who 5101 tis, probably emphatic of 5100; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions):-----every man, how (much), no, none, nothing, what (manner, thing), where, whereby, wherefore, whereof, whereunto, wherewith, wherewithal, whether, which, who, whom whose, why.

appointed 2525 kathistemi, from 2596 and 2476; to place down (permanently), i.e. (figuratively) to designate, constitute, convoy:-----appoint, be, conduct, make, ordain, set.

you 4571

ruler 758 archon, present participle of 757; a first (in political rank or power):---chielf (ruler), magistrate, prince, ruler.

757 archomai, middle of 757 (through the implication of precedence); to commence (in order of time):---begin, (rehearse from the) beginning.

“The infinite has no beginning. This word beginning is employed to signify the only,--- that is the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe.”

 (Emphasis added.)  SH p. 502:24.

judge 1348 dikastes, from a derivative of 1349; a judger:----judge.

1349 dike, probably from 1166; right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution):-----judgment, punish, vengeance.

This one 5126

God 2316

sent 649 apostello, from 575 and 4724; set apart, i.e. (by implication) to send out (properly on a mission) literally or figuratively:----put in, send (away, forth, out), set [at liberty].

ruler 758 (See above.)

deliverer 3086 lytrotes, from 3084; a redeemer (figuratively):----deliverer.

3084 lytroo, from 3083; to ransom (lit. or fig.):-----redeem.

3083 lytron, from 3089; something to loosen with, i.e. a redemption price (figuratively atonement):---ransom.

by 1722

hand 5495 cheir, perhaps from the base of 5494 in the sense of its cogener the base of 5490 (through the idea of hollowness for grasping); the hand (literal or figurative [power]; especially [by Hebrew] a means or an instrument):----hand.

5494 cheimon, from a derivative of cheo (to pour; akin to the base of 5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain); by implication the rainy season, i.e. winter:----tempest, foul weather, winter.

Angel 32 angelos, from angello [probably derived from 71; compare 34] (to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an “angel”; by implication a pastor:----angel, messenger.

appearing 3700 optanomai, a (middle) prolonged form of the primary (middle) optomai which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as an alternate of 3708; to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from 991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from 1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while 2300, and still more emphatically its intensive 2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and 4648 a watching from a distance):---look, see, shew self, appear.

3708 horao; properly to stare at [compare 3700], i.e. (by implication) to discern clearly (physically or mentally); by extension to attend to; by Hebrew to experience; passive to appear:----behold, perceive, see, take heed.

to him 846

in 1722

bush 942 batos, of uncertain derivation; a brier shrub:-----bramble, bush.

Acts 7 verse 34

Acts 7 verse 34

I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.     (KJV)

I surely saw the affliction of My people in Egypt, and I have heard their groan; and I came down to pluck them out. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.     

(IB)

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Retranslation:  I am aware of the maltreatment of my people which are besieged and confined, and I hear their silent prayer regarding the obstacles all around them; and My foundation descends to release them from their confinement.  At this time, Come here!  I  have set you apart: You are mine! Consecrated to Me! I will send you on a mission to the land of Confinement. 

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Seeing 1492 eido, a primary verb; used on in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent 3700 and 3708; properly to see (literally or figuratively); by implication (in the perfect only) to know:------be aware, behold, can (+ not tell), consider, know, have knowledge, look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wish, wot. Compare 3700.

saw 1492 (Same as above. Literal translation in Greek: “Seeing I saw the oppression of the people of Me.”)

affliction 2561 kakosis, from 2559; maltreatment:----affliction.

2559 kakoo, from 2556; to injure; figuratively to exasperate:-----make evil affected, entreat evil, harm, hurt, vex.

2556 kakos, apparently a primary word; worthless (intrinsically such; whereas 4190 properly refers to effects), i.e. (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious:---bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.

My 3450

people 2992 laos, apparently a primary word; a people (in general; thus differing from 1218, which denotes one’s own populace):-----people.

in 1722

Egypt 125 Aigyptos, of uncertain derivation; Aegyptus, the land of the Nile:----Egypt.

Egypt H4714 misrayim, dual of H4693; Misrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:----Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

H4693 masor, the same as 4692 in the sense of a limit; Egypt (as the border of Palestine):

---besieged places, defense, fortified.

H4692 masor or masur, from 6696; something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness:---- besieged, bulwark, defense, fenced, fortress, siege, hold, strong hold, tower.

H6696 sur, a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literal or figurative, formative or hostile):------adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind, bind up, cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.

heard 191 akouo, a primary verb; to hear (in various senses):--- give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear, hearer, hearken, be noised, be reported, understand.

groan 4726 stenagmos, from 4727; a sigh:----groaning.

4727 stenazo, from 4728; to make (intransitive be) in straits, i.e. (by implication) to sigh, murmur, pray inaudibly:----with grief, groan, grudge, sigh.

4728 stenos, probably from the base of 2476; narrow (from obstacles standing close about):

----strait.

came down 2597 katabaino, from 2596 and the base of 939; to descend (lit. or fig.):---come (get, go, step) down, fall (down).

939 basis, from baino (to walk); a pace (“base”), i.e. (by implication) the foot:----foot.

rescue 1807 exaireo, from 1537 and 138; active, to tear out; middle to select; figuratively, to release:-----deliver, pluck out, rescue.

them 846

now 3568 nyn, a primary particle of present time; “now” (as adverb of date, a transition, or emphasis); also as noun or adjective present or immediate:----henceforth, hereafter, of late, soon, present, this (time). See also 3569, 3570.

come 1204 deuro, of uncertain affinity; here; used also imperatively hither!; and of time, hitherto:-----come (hither), hither, hitherto.

(I will) send 649 apostello, from 575 and 4724; set apart, i.e. (by implication) to send out (properly on a mission) literally or figuratively:----put in, send (away, forth, out), set [at liberty].

you 4571

to 1519

Egypt 125

Acts 7 verse 33

Acts 7 verse 33

Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.    (KJV)

 And the Lord said unto him, “Untie the sandal from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”        (IB)

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Retranslation:  The Ruler and The Judge, whose decisions are final, whose government is the End, whose Authority is supreme and binding, communicated this meaning:  “Your binding foundation is dissolved! For the condition in which you exist is a world of Reason (meaning of circle, or sacred), where I AM the Premise and the conclusions are all consecrated to Me!”

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Lord 2962 kyrios, from kyros (supremacy); supreme in authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication Mister (as a respectful title):----God, Lord, master, Sir.

supreme (1828 Dict. def.): [L. super, has adj. superus, being, or placed, above.]

1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in government or power. In the United States the congress is supreme in regulating commerce and in making war and peace. The parliament of Great Britain is supreme in legislation; but the king is supreme in the administration of the government. In the universe, God only is the supreme ruler and judge. His commands are supreme, and binding on all his creatures.
2. Highest, greatest or most excellent; as supreme love; supreme glory; supreme degree.

authority (ibid.)

1. Legal power, or a right to command or to act; as the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children. Power; rule; sway.

said 2036 epo, a primary verb; to speak or say (by word or in writing):-----answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell. Compare 3004.

bring (ibid.) to cause to come.

word: the thing that communicates meaning. 

Loosen 3089 lyo, a primary verb; to “loosen” (literally or figuratively):-----break (up), destroy, dissolve, loose, unloose, melt, put off. Compare 4486.

4486 rhegnymi or rhesso, both prolonged vorms of rheko (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of agnymi [see 2608]; to “break”, “wreck” or “crack’, i.e. (especially) to sunder (by separation of parts; 2608 being its intensive [with the preposition in compound], and 2352 a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like 3089) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication to convulse (with spasms); figuratively to give vent to joyful emotions:----break (forth), burst, rend, tear.

2608 katagnymi, from 2596 and the base of 4486; to rend in pieces, i.e. crack apart:----break.

sandal 5266 hypodema, from 5265; something bound under the feet, i.e. a shoe or sandal:-----shoe.

5265 hypodeo, from 5259 and 1210; to bind under one’s feet, i.e. put on shoes or sandals:---bind on, (be) shod.

feet 4228 pous, a primary word; a “foot” (figuratively or literal):----foot, footstool.

foot (ibid.) 

1. Foundation; condition; state. 

We are not on the same foot with our fellow citizens. In this sense, it is more common, in America, to use footing; and in this sense the plural is not used.

footing (ibid.)

1. Ground for the foot; that which sustains; firm foundation to stand on.

In ascents, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.   Holder.

1. Support; foot.
2. Basis; foundation.
3. Place; stable position.
4. Permanent settlement. 

Let not these evils gain footing.

1. Tread; step; walk.
2. Dance; tread to measure
3. Steps; road; track.
4. State; condition; settlement.

Place both parties on an equal footing.

for 1063 gar, a primary particle; properly assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles):---and, as, because (that), but, even, for, indeed, no doubt, seeing, then, therefore, verily, what, why, yet.

place 5117 topos, apparently a primary word; a spot (generally in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas 5561 is a larger but particular locality), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively condition, opportunity; specifically a scabbard:----where, room, quarter, plain, place, rock, license, coast.

on 1722 en, a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537); “in”, at, on, upon, by, etc. Often used in compounds with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition:-----about, after, against, almost, altogether, among, as, at, before, between, by here by (+ all means), for (. . .sake of), give self wholly to, in, herein, into, inwardly, mightily, (because) of, on, upon, -ly (e.g. openly, speedily), outwardly, one, quickly, shortly, that, there, therein, thereon, through, throughout, to, unto, toward, under, when where, wherewith, while, with, within.

which 3739

stand 2476 histemi, a prolonged form of a primary stao (of the same meaning and used for it in certain tenses); to stand (transitive or intransitive), used in various applications (literally or figuratively):----abide, appoint, bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set (up), stanch, stand (by, forth, still, up). Compare 5087.

abide (ibid.): [Aramaic abada, to be or exist, to continue; Welsh bod, to be; Russian vitayu, to dwell, rest, continue, stand firm, or be stationary for any time indefinitely.]

1. To rest, or dwell. Gen. xxix 19.
2. To tarry or stay for a short time. Gen. xxiv. 55.
3. To continue permanently or in the same state; to be firm and immovable. Ps. cxix. 90.
4. To remain, to continue. Acts xxvii. 31. Eccles. viii. 15.

is 2076

holy 40 hagios, from hagos (an awful thing) [compare 53, H2282]; sacred (physically pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially consecrated):----(most) holy (one, thing), saint.

53 hagos, from the same as 40; properly clean, i.e. (figuratively) innocent, modest, perfect:-----chaste, clean, pure.

H2282 hag, from H2287; a festival, or a victim therefor:-----feast, feast day, solemn feast, sacrifice, solemnity.

H2287 hagog, a primitive root [compare H2283, H2328; properly to move in a circle, i.e. (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by implication to be giddy:-----celebrate, dance, keep a feast, hold a feast, keep a solemn feast, keep holyday, reel to and fro.

H2283 haga, from an unused root meaning to revolve [compare H2287]; properly vertigo, i.e. (figuratively) fear:----terror.

H2328 hug, a primitive root [compare 2287]; to describe a circle:----circle, circuit, compass. 

ground 1093 ge, contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):----country, earth, earthly, ground, land, world.

Acts 7 verse 32

Acts 7 verse 32

Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.    (KJV)

I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” But becoming trembly, Moses did not dare to look.     (IB)

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Retranslation: I will show you! said The First Person, and It rendered Itself emphatically and visibly to Moses. I AM the Father of fathers; I AM Truth and joy; I AM the God who rules. The force of Its limitlessness terrified Moses who was used to limits everywhere, and Moses did not presume to fully comprehend. 

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I (am) 1473 ego, a primary pronoun of the first person; only expressed when emphatic:----I, me. For the other cases and the plural see 1691,1698, 1700, 2248, 2249, 2254, 2257, etc.

emphatic (Origins dict. p. 199, See FANCY, para. 10): L. phantasia, idea, (but esp.) apparition, adopted from Gr., where it means ‘appearance, imagination,’ from phatazein (stem phantaz-), to render visible, fig. to the mind, and elaboration of phainein, to show, stem phain-. Phaino, I show, is probably for *phaino, with IE (Indoeuropean) etymon *bhanio or *bhenio . . . a phonetic extension of IE root bha-, to shine: compare Sk (Sanskrit) bhati, it shines, is light, and, for ghan-, Skt bhanus light (of day, etc.).

emphatic (1828 Dict. def.): 

1. Forcible; strong; impressive; as an emphatic voice, tone or pronunciation; emphatical reasoning.
2. Requiring emphasis; as an emphatical word.
3. Uttered with emphasis. We remonstrated in emphatical terms.
4. Striking to the eye; as emphatic colors.

emphatically adv. (ibid.) 

1. With emphasis; strongly; forcibly; in a striking manner.
2. According to appearance.

emphasis (ibid.) In rhetoric, a particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given to the words or parts of discourse, whose significance the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience; or a distinctive utterance of words, specially significant, with a degree and kind of stress suited to convey their meaning in the best manner.

God 2316

fathers 3962

Abraham 11

Isaac 2464

Jacob 2384

becoming 1096 ginomai, a prolonged and middle form of a primary verb; to cause to be (“gen” -erate). i.e. (reflexive) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.):-----arise, be assembled, be, become, befall, behave self, be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, God forbid, grow happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.

trembling 1790 entromos, from 1722 and 5156; terrified;----quake, trembled.

Moses 3475

durst/dare 5111 tolmao, from tolma (boldness; probably itself from the base of 5056 through the idea of extreme conduct); to venture (objectively or in act; while 2292 is rather subjective or in feeling); by implication to be courageous:----be bold, boldy, dare, durst.

5056 telos, from a primary tello (to set out for a definite point or goal); properly the point aimed at as a limit, i.e. (by implication) the conclusion of an act or state (termination) [literal, figurative or indefinite], result [immediate, ultimate or prophetic], purpose); specifically an impost or levy (as paid):----continual, custom, end, ending, finally, uttermost. Compare 5411.

teleology (Origins Dict. p. 957. See Element teleo-. From Gr. teleos (stem tele-, root tel-) complete, perfect, akin to telos (stem tel-), end, q.v. at telo-.)

teleology (1828 Dict. def.): [L. tele, end + logy, discourse.]

The science of final causes of things.

teleology appears three times in Miscellaneous Writings (74:10; 218:30; 219:1)

cause (1828 Dict. def.): [L. causa, . . . effecting power . . .  The primary sense is to urge, press, impel . . .  The root of this word coincides with that of castle, cast, etc., which express driving. A cause is that which moves, excites or impels to action or effect. . . . Cause, sake, and thing have the like radical sense.]

venture v.i. [From L. venio, ventus, venturus, to come.]

1. To dare; to have courage or presumption to do, undertake or say. A man ventures to climb a ladder; he ventures into battle; he ventures to assert things which he does not know.
2. To run a hazard or risk. Who freights a ship to venture on the seas. Dryden.

to venture at, on or upon:  to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. It is rash to venture upon such a project.

not 3756 ou, Also (before a vowel) ouk and (before an aspirate) ouch, a primary word; the absolute negative [compare 3361] adverb; no or not:---long, nay, neither, never, no (man), none, not, cannot, nothing, special, un- (e.g. unworthy), when, without, yet, but. See also 3364, 3372.

observe 2657 katanoeo, from 2596 and 3539; to observe fully:-----behold, consider, discover, perceive.

3539 noeo, from 3563; to exercise the mind (observe), i.e. (figuratively) to comprehend, heed:-----consider, perceive, think, understand.

3563 nous, probably from the base of 1097; the intellect, i.e. mind (divine or human; in thought, feeling or will); by implication meaning:-----mind, understanding, Compare 5590.

NOTE about “NOUS”: In the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, after Jesus is crucified, the disciples gather around Mary. The following is excerpted from The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (translated) by Jean-Yves LeLoup, pages 111 through 121. Peter asks Mary:

“Tell us whatever you remember 

of any words he told you 

which we have not yet heard.

Mary said to them: 

‘I will now speak to you 

of that which has not been given to you to hear. 

I had a vision of the Teacher, 

and I said to him: 

‘Lord I see you now 

in this vision.‘ 

And he answered: 

‘You are blessed, for the sight of me does not disturb you. 

There where is the nous, lies the treasure.’” 

Then I said to him:

‘Lord, when someone meets you

in a Moment of vision,

is it through the soul [psyche] that they see,

or is it through the Spirit [Pneuma]?’

The Teacher answered:

‘It is neither through the soul nor the spirit,

but the nous between the two

which sees the vision, and it is this which . . . .’”

[Pages 11-14 of the Gospel are missing] 

“The canonical Gospels, even that of John, have left us unprepared for this kind of question. It is as if the disciples of those gospels were totally uninterested in epistemological or metaphysical questions. Being men of practical intelligence, they were concerned only with questions of how to live and act. It is as if they had no interest in probing the nature of their own knowledge and perception of the resurrected Christ.” (ibid. p. 117) 

“[The Gospels of Matthew and Luke] substitute the word heart and change the tense from present to future: For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The usual meaning of kardia is the “general inner nature of a person.” To speak of nous rather than kardia has far deeper significance than merely a stylistic difference. We could even say that it suggests something specific about what Yeshua’s anthropology might have been.” (ibid., p. 115)

“In the Gospel of Mary, the nous does not represent the whole human being, nor even an element, such as heart or intellect, which will some day have to discover the treasure. For here there is no more division between the treasure that one must acquire little by little, and oneself. There is no difference between the treasure and that part of us that is the nous----the nous is the treasure, an inner element that the disciple has no need to acquire through some moral action, but something he already possesses by nature, and that must also be discovered.” (ibid., p. 116)

This is such a lovely translation, and Leloup’s “commentary” following his translation is not to be missed!