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Note:
In verse 10, the
KJV
“shall melt” represents the verb
$
, “to loosen, dissolve”
(
RV
, “shall be dissolved,” passive voice); so in vv. 11-12.
MEMBER
(
!
, 3196), “a limb of the body,” is used (a) literally, Matt. 5:29-30; Rom.
6:13 (twice), 19 (twice); 7:5, 23 (twice); 12:4 (twice); 1 Cor. 12:12 (twice), 14, 18-20, 22,
25-26 (twice); Jas. 3:5, 6; 4:1; in Col. 3:5, “mortify therefore your members which are
upon the earth”; since our bodies and their “members” belong to the earth, and are the
instruments of sin, they are referred to as such (cf. Matt. 5:29-30; Rom. 7:5, 23,
mentioned above); the putting to death is not physical, but ethical; as the physical
“members” have distinct individualities, so those evils, of which the physical “members”
are agents, are by analogy regarded as examples of the way in which the “members”
work if not put to death; this is not precisely the same as “the old man,” v. 9, i.e., the old
nature, though there is a connection; (b) metaphorically, “of believers as members of
Christ,” 1 Cor. 6:15 (1st part); of one another, Rom. 12:5 (as with the natural illustration,
so with the spiritual analogy, there is not only vital unity, and harmony in operation, but
diversity, all being essential to effectivity; the unity is not due to external organization
but to common and vital union in Christ); there is stress in v. 5 upon “many” and “in
Christ” and “members;” 1 Cor. 12:27 (of the “members” of a local church as a body);
Eph. 4:25 (of the “members” of the whole Church as the mystical body of Christ); in 1
Cor. 6:15 (2nd part), of one who practices fornication.¶
MEMORIAL
$
(
, 3422) denotes “a memorial,” that which keeps alive the
memory of someone or something (from
, “mindful”), Matt. 26:13; Mark 14:9;
Acts 10:4.¶
For
MEMORY (keep in)
see
KEEP
,
Note
(8)
MEN
Notes:
(1) For this plural see the nouns under
MAN
. (2) For
, e.g., Rom.
6:19, “after the manner of men,” see
MAN
’S, No. 1. (3) For the phrase
,
“after the manner of men,” see
MAN
, No. 1 (f). (4) The phrase “quit you like men,” 1 Cor.
16:13, translates the verb
, in the middle voice, “to play the man” (a verb
illustrated in the papyri). (5) See also
ALL
,
GOOD
,
GREAT
,
LOW
(estate),
THESE
, (of)
WAR
.
MEN-PLEASERS
(
$ 1$
, 441), an adjective signifying “studying to please
men” (
, “man,”
, “to please”), designates, “not simply one who is
pleasing to men … , but one who endeavors to please men and not God” (Cremer). It is
used in Eph. 6:6 and Col. 3:22.¶ In the Sept., Ps. 53:5.¶
MENSERVANTS
(
, 3816), for the meanings of which see
CHILD
, No. 4, is translated
“menservants” in Luke 12:45.
MEN-STEALERS