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7.
(
!
, 272), “not to care,” is translated “I regarded … not” in Heb. 8:9.
See
NEGLECT
.
Notes:
(1) In Gal. 6:4,
RV
,
, “into,” is translated “in regard of (himself),”
KJV
, “in”;
so in 2 Cor. 10:16; Eph. 5:32. (2) In Rom. 6:20, the dative case of
$
,
“righteousness,” signifies, not “from righteousness,”
KJV
, but “in regard of
righteousness,”
RV
, lit., “free to righteousness”; i.e., righteousness laid no sort of bond
upon them, they had no relation to it in any way. (3) In 2 Cor. 8:4 the accusative case of
and
is, in the best texts, used absolutely, i.e., not as the objects of an
expressed verb; hence the
RV
, “in regard to” (
KJV
, “that we would receive,” where the
verb is the result of a supplementary gloss). (4) For “not regarding” in Phil. 2:30,
KJV
(
RV
, “hazarding”), see
HAZARD
, No. 2.
REGENERATION
(
&
, 3824), “new birth” (
, “again,”
, “birth”), is
used of “spiritual regeneration,” Titus 3:5, involving the communication of a new life, the
two operating powers to produce which are “the word of truth,” Jas. 1:18; 1 Pet. 1:23, and
the Holy Spirit, John 3:5, 6; the
$
, “the laver, the washing,” is explained in Eph.
5:26, “having cleansed it by the washing (
$
) of water with the word.”
The new birth and “regeneration” do not represent successive stages in spiritual
experience, they refer to the same event but view it in different aspects. The new birth
stresses the communication of spiritual life in contrast to antecedent spiritual death;
“regeneration” stresses the inception of a new state of things in contrast with the old;
hence the connection of the use of the word with its application to Israel, in Matt. 19:28.
Some regard the
in Titus 3:5 as epexegetic, “even”; but, as Scripture marks two
distinct yet associated operating powers, there is not sufficient ground for this
interpretation. See under
EVEN
.
In Matt. 19:28 the word is used, in the Lord’s discourse, in the wider sense, of the
“restoration of all things” (Acts 3:21,
RV
), when, as a result of the second advent of
Christ, Jehovah “sets His King upon His holy hill of Zion” (Ps. 2:6), and Israel, now in
apostasy, is restored to its destined status, in the recognition and under the benign
sovereignty of its Messiah. Thereby will be accomplished the deliverance of the world
from the power and deception of Satan and from the despotic and antichristian rulers of
the nations. This restitution will not in the coming millennial age be universally a return
to the pristine condition of Edenic innocence previous to the Fall, but it will fulfill the
establishment of God’s covenant with Abraham concerning his descendants, a veritable
rebirth of the nation, involving the peace and prosperity of the Gentiles. That the
worldwide subjection to the authority of Christ will not mean the entire banishment of
evil, is clear from Rev. 20:7, 8. Only in the new heavens and earth, “wherein dwelleth
righteousness,” will sin and evil be entirely absent.
REGION
1.
(
0$
, 5561), “a space lying between two limits, a country, land,” is
translated “region” in Matt. 4:16; Luke 3:1; Acts 8:1; 13:49; 16:6; 18:23,
RV
. In the last