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6.
(
$
, 461), “to set upright” ( , “up,”
, “straight”), is used
of “lifting” up “hands that hang down,” Heb. 12:12; of setting up a building, restoring
ruins, Acts 15:16 (cf, e.g., 2 Sam. 7:13, 16; 1 Chron. 17:12; Jer. 10:12; often so used in
the papyri); of the healing of the woman with a spirit of infirmity, Luke 13:13, “was
made straight” (for v. 11, see No. 7). See
SET
,
STRAIGHT
.¶
7.
$
(
"
, 352), “to lift oneself up,” is used (a) of the body, Luke
13:11; John 8:7, 10; (b) metaphorically, of the mind, to look up, to be elated, Luke 21:28
(followed by No. 3, “lift up”); an instance is found in the papyri in which a person speaks
of the impossibility of ever looking up again in a certain place, for very shame (Moulton
and Milligan,
F !
).¶ In the Sept., Job 10:15.¶
LIGHT, Noun, and Verb (bring to, give), LIGHTEN
A. Nouns.
1.
(
, 5457), akin to
, “to give light” (from roots
I
and
I
,
expressing “light as seen by the eye,” and, metaphorically, as “reaching the mind,”
whence
, “to make to appear,”
, “evident,” etc.); cf. Eng., “phosphorus”
(lit., “light-bearing”). “Primarily light is a luminous emanation, probably of force, from
certain bodies, which enables the eye to discern form and color. Light requires an organ
adapted for its reception (Matt. 6:22). Where the eye is absent, or where it has become
impaired from any cause, light is useless. Man, naturally, is incapable of receiving
spiritual light inasmuch as he lacks the capacity for spiritual things, 1 Cor. 2:14. Hence
believers are called ‘sons of light,’ Luke 16:8, not merely because they have received a
revelation from God, but because in the New Birth they have received the spiritual
capacity for it.
“Apart from natural phenomena, light is used in Scripture of (a) the glory of God’s
dwellingplace, 1 Tim. 6:16; (b) the nature of God, 1 John 1:5; (c) the impartiality of God,
Jas. 1:17; (d) the favor of God, Ps. 4:6; of the King, Prov. 16:15; of an influential man,
Job 29:24; (e) God, as the illuminator of His people, Isa. 60:19, 20; (f) the Lord Jesus as
the illuminator of men, John 1:4, 5, 9; 3:19; 8:12; 9:5; 12:35, 36, 46; Acts 13:47; (g) the
illuminating power of the Scriptures, Ps. 119:105; and of the judgments and
commandments of God, Isa. 51:4; Prov. 6:23, cf. Ps. 43:3; (h) the guidance of God Job
29:3; Ps. 112:4; Isa. 58:10; and, ironically, of the guidance of man, Rom. 2:19; (i)
salvation, 1 Pet. 2:9; (j) righteousness, Rom. 13:12; 2 Cor. 11:14, 15; 1 John 2:9, 10; (k)
witness for God, Matt. 5:14, 16; John 5:35; (1) prosperity and general well-being, Esth.
8:16; Job 18:18; Isa. 58:8-10.”*
2.
(
)$
, 5458) denotes “a luminary, light,” or “light-giver”; it is used
figuratively of believers, as shining in the spiritual darkness of the world, Phil. 2:15; in
Rev. 21:11 it is used of Christ as the “Light” reflected in and shining through the
heavenly city (cf. v. 23).¶ In the Sept., Gen. 1:14, 16.¶
3.
(
, 5462), “an illumination, light,” is used metaphorically in 2
Cor. 4:4, of the “light” of the gospel, and in v. 6, of the knowledge of the glory of God.¶
In the Sept., Job 3:9; Ps. 27:1; 44:3; 78:14; 90:8; 139:11.¶
* From
Notes on Thessalonians,
by Hogg and Vine pp. 159, 160.