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4.
or
(
&
, 448), “unmerciful, merciless” ( , negative, ,
euphonic, and A, No. 2, or C, No. 3), occurs in Jas. 2:13, said of judgment on him who
shows no mercy.¶
MERCY SEAT
(
,
)$
, 2435), “the lid or cover of the ark of the covenant,” signifies
the Propitiatory, so called on account of the expiation made once a year on the great Day
of Atonement, Heb. 9:5. For the formation see Exod. 25:17-21. The Heb. word is
, “the cover,” a meaning connected with the covering or removal of sin (Ps.
32:1) by means of expiatory sacrifice. This mercy seat, together with the ark, is spoken of
as the footstool of God, 1 Chron. 28:2; cf. Ps. 99:5; 132:7. The Lord promised to be
present upon it and to commune with Moses “from above the mercy seat, from between
the two cherubim,” Exod. 25:22 (see
CHERUBIM
). In the Sept. the word
, which
itself means “a cover,” is added to
;
was simply a translation of
;
accordingly,
, not having this meaning, and being essentially
connected with propitiation, was added. Eventually
stood for both. In 1
Chron. 28:11 the Holy of Holies is called “the House of the Kapporeth” (see
RV
, marg.).
Through His voluntary expiatory sacrifice in the shedding of His blood, under divine
judgment upon sin, and through His resurrection, Christ has become the Mercy Seat for
His people. See Rom. 3:25, and see
PROPITIATION
, B, No. 1.¶
MERRY (to be, to make)
1.
$
(
' $ &
, 2165), in the active voice, “to cheer, make glad,” 2 Cor. 2:2,
is used everywhere else in the passive voice, signifying, “to be happy, rejoice, make
merry,” and translated “to be merry” in Luke 12:19; 15:23, 24, 29, 32; in 16:19, “fared
(sumptuously)”; in Rev. 11:10, make merry. See
FARE
,
GLAD
,
REJOICE
.
2.
$
$
(
' !
, 2114), from
$
, “well,” and
$
, “the soul,” as the
principle of feeling, especially strong feeling, signifies “to make cheerful”; it is used
intransitively in the NT, “to be of good cheer,” Acts 27:22, 25; in Jas. 5:13,
RV
, “is (any)
cheerful?” (
KJV
, “… merry?”). See
CHEER
.¶
MESS
(
$
, 1035), “eating, food,” is translated “mess of meat” in Heb. 12:16,
RV
(
KJV
, “morsel of meat”). See
FOOD
,
MEAT
, No. 2.
MESSAGE
1.
(
&
, 31), akin to
, “to bring a message, proclaim,” denotes a
“message, proclamation, news,” 1 John 1:5 [some mss. have
. see
Note
(1)]; 1
John 3:11, where the word is more precisely defined (by being followed by the
conjunction “that,” expressing the purpose that we should love one another) as being
virtually equivalent to an order.¶
Notes:
(1)
,
( , “upon,” and No. 1), “a promise,” is found in some mss. in 1
John 1:5, “message” (see No. 1). See
PROMISE
. (2) In Luke 19:14,
KJV
,
, is
translated “a message”;
RV
, “an ambassage,” as in 14:32. See
AMBASSAGE
.¶