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(
1 $
, 2977), “secretly, covertly” (from a root
indicating “unnoticed,
unknown,” seen in
, “to escape notice,”
, “forgetfulness”), is translated
“privily” in Matt. 1:19; 2:7; Acts 16:37; “secretly” in John 11:28 (in some mss., Mark
5:33). See
SECRETLY
.¶
Note:
In Gal. 2:4,
, an adjective (akin to
, lit., “to bring in
beside,” i.e., “secretly,” from
, “by the side,”
, “into,”
, “to bring”), is used,
“privily brought in,”
RV
(
KJV
, “unawares, etc.”), i.e., as spies or traitors. Strabo, a Greek
historian contemporary with Paul, uses the word of enemies introduced secretly into a
city by traitors within.¶ In the same verse the verb
(see
COME
, No. 8) is
translated “came in privily,” of the same Judaizers, brought in by the circumcision party
to fulfill the design of establishing the ceremonial law, and thus to accomplish the
overthrow of the faith; cf. in Jude 4 the verb
$
(or
I $
), “to slip in secretly,
steal in,”
RV
, “crept in privily” (
KJV
, “… unawares”). See
CREEP
, No. 2.
PRIVY
$
(
"
, 4862 and Perf. of
"
, 1492): see
KNOW
, No. 6.
PRIZE
1.
(
$
, 1017), “a prize bestowed in connection with the games” (akin
to
$
, “an umpire,” and
$
, “to decide, arbitrate,” “rule,” Col. 3:15), 1 Cor.
9:24, is used metaphorically of “the reward” to be obtained hereafter by the faithful
believer, Phil. 3:14; the preposition
, “unto,” indicates the position of the goal. The
“prize” is not “the high calling,” but will be bestowed in virtue of, and relation to, it, the
heavenly calling, Heb. 3:1, which belongs to all believers and directs their minds and
aspirations heavenward; for the “prize” see especially 2 Tim. 4:7, 8.¶
2.
(
2$
, 725), akin to
, “to seize, carry off by force,” is
found in Phil. 2:6, “(counted it not) a prize,”
RV
(marg., “a thing to be grasped”),
KJV
,
“(thought it not) robbery”; it may have two meanings, (a) in the active sense, “the act of
seizing, robbery,” a meaning in accordance with a rule connected with its formation, (b)
in the passive sense, “a thing held as a prize.” The subject is capably treated by Gifford in
“
9
” pp. 28, 36, from which the following is quoted:
“In order to express the meaning of the clause quite clearly, a slight alteration is
required in the
RV
, ‘Counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God.’ The form ‘to
be’ is ambiguous and easily lends itself to the erroneous notion that to be on equality with
God was something to be acquired in the future. The rendering ‘counted it not a prize that
He was on an equality with God,’ is quite as accurate and more free from ambiguity.…
Assuming, as we now may, that the equality was something which Christ possessed prior
to His Incarnation, and then for a time resigned we have … to choose between two
meanings of the word
(1) with the active sense ‘robbery’ or ‘usurpation’ we
get the following meaning: ‘Who
$
He was subsisting in the essential form of God,
did not regard it as any usurpation that He was on an equality of glory and majesty with
God,
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emptied Himself of that coequal glory.… ’ (2) The passive sense gives a