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quickening is not reinvigoration but the impartation of life at the time of the Rapture, as
in 1 Cor. 15:53, 54 and 2 Cor. 5:4 (
RV
, “what is mortal”;
KJV
, “mortality”); in 2 Cor.
4:11, it is applied to the flesh, which stands, not simply for the body, but the body as that
which consists of the element of decay, and is thereby death-doomed. Christ’s followers
are in this life delivered unto death, that His life may be manifested in that which
naturally is the seat of decay and death. That which is subject to suffering is that in which
the power of Him who suffered here is most manifested.¶
MORTIFY
1.
(
, 2289), “to put to death” (from
, “death,” akin to
, “mortal,” see above), is translated “mortify” in Rom. 8:13 (Amer.
RV
, “put to
death”); in 7:4, “ye were made dead” (passive voice), betokens the act of God on the
believer, through the death of Christ; here in 8:13 it is the act of the believer himself, as
being responsible to answer to God’s act, and to put to death “the deeds of the body. See
DEATH
, C, No. 1.
2.
(
$
, 3499), “to make dead” (from
, see
DEAD
, A), is used
figuratively in Col. 3:5 and translated “mortify” (Amer.
RV
, “put to death”). See
DEAD
, B,
No. 1.
MOST
1.
(
&
, 4119), the neuter of
, “more,” is used adverbially and
translated “most” (of degree) in Luke 7:42 (without the article); in v. 43 (with the article,
“the most”); 1 Cor. 10:5,
RV
, “most” (
KJV
, “many”); Phil. 1:14 (ditto). See
MORE
.
2.
(
, 4118), the superlative degree of
$
, is used (a) as an
adjective in Matt. 11:20; 21:8,
RV
, “(the) most part of” (
KJV
, “a very great”); (b) in the
neuter, with the article, adverbially, “at the most,” 1 Cor. 14:27; (c) as an elative (i.e.,
intensively) in Mark 4:1 (in the best mss.; some have
$
), “a very great (multitude).”
3.
(
1
, 3122), an adverb, the superlative of
, “very,” is translated
“most of all” in Acts 20:38. See
ESPECIALLY
.
Note:
For combinations in the translation of other words, see
BELIEVE
, C,
Note
(4),
EXCELLENT
,
GLADLY
,
HIGH
,
STRAITEST
.
MOTE
(
1$
, 2595), “a small, dry stalk, a twig, a bit of dried stick” (from
, “to dry up”), or “a tiny straw or bit of wool,” such as might fly into the eye, is
used metaphorically of a minor fault, Matt. 7:3, 4, 5; Luke 6:41, 42 (twice), in contrast
with
, “a beam supporting the roof of a building” (see
BEAM
).¶ In the Sept., Gen.
8:11.¶
MOTH
(
)
, 4597) denotes “a clothes moth,” Matt. 6:19, 20; Luke 12:33.¶ In Job 4:19
“crushed before the moth” alludes apparently to the fact that woolen materials, riddled by
the larvae of “moths,” become so fragile that a touch demolishes them. In Job 27:18 “He
buildeth his house as a “moth” alludes to the frail covering which a larval “moth”