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it is used of the “religion” of the Jews, Acts 26:5; of the “worshiping” of angels, Col.
2:18, which they themselves repudiate (Rev. 22:8, 9); “there was an officious parade of
humility in selecting these lower beings as intercessors rather than appealing directly to
the Throne of Grace” (Lightfoot); in Jas. 1:26, 27 the writer purposely uses the word to
set in contrast that which is unreal and deceptive, and the “pure religion” which consists
in visiting “the fatherless and widows in their affliction,” and in keeping oneself
“unspotted from the world.” He is “not herein affirming … these offices to be the sum
total, nor yet the great essentials, of true religion, but declares them to be the body, the
, of which godliness, or the love of God, is the informing soul” (Trench).¶
2.
(
&
, 1175) primarily denotes “fear of the gods” (from
, “to fear,”
, “a pagan deity,” Eng., “demon”), regarded whether as a
religious attitude, or, in its usual meaning, with a condemnatory or contemptuous
significance, “superstition.” That is how Festus regarded the Jews’ “religion,” Acts
25:19,
KJV
and
RV
marg., “superstition” (
RV
, “religion”). See
RELIGIOUS
,
Note
(1), and
under
SUPERSTITIOUS
.¶
Notes:
(1)
is external,
is the reverential worship of God (see
GODLINESS
),
$
is piety (see
GODLINESS
),
$
the devotedness arising from
godly fear (see
FEAR
). (2) For “the Jews’ religion,” Gal. 1:13, 14, see
JEWS
, B.
RELIGIOUS
(
$
, 2357), “religious, careful of the externals of divine service,” akin
to
(see above), is used in Jas. 1:26.¶
Notes:
(1) For
, Acts 17:22,
RV
, marg., “religious,” see
SUPERSTITIOUS
.
(2) For “religious (proselytes),”
KJV
in Acts 13:43, see
DEVOUT
, No. 3.
REMAIN
1.
(
!
, 3306), “to stay, abide,” is frequently rendered “to remain,” e.g., Matt.
11:23; Luke 10:7; John 1:33,
KJV
(
RV
, “abiding”); 9:41 (in 15:11, the best texts have the
verb to be, see
RV
); 15:16,
KJV
(
RV
, “abide”); 19:31; Acts 5:4 (twice),
RV
, “whiles it
remained, did it (not) remain (thine own)?”; 27:41; 1 Cor. 7:11; 15:6; 2 Cor. 3:11, 14;
9:9,
KJV
(
RV
, “abideth”); Heb. 12:27; 1 John 3:9. See
ABIDE
.
2.
(
!
, 1265), “to remain throughout” ( , “through,” and No. 1), is
translated “to remain” in Luke 1:22; Heb. 1:11,
KJV
(
RV
, “Thou continuest”). See
CONTINUE
, No. 4.
3.
(
&
, 620), in the passive voice, “to be reserved, to remain,” is
translated “remaineth” in Heb. 4:6, 9; 10:26. See
LEAVE
, No. 4.
4.
(
$ &
, 4035), “to leave over,” used in the middle voice, is translated
“remain” in 1 Thess. 4:15, 17,
KJV
(
RV
, “are left”), where it stands for the living believers
at the coming (the beginning of the Parousia) of Christ.¶
5.
$
(
$ "
, 4052), “to abound, to be over and above, to remain over,” is
rendered “(that which) remained over” in Matt. 14:20,
RV
; and Luke 9:17,
RV
(
KJV
,
“remained”); John 6:12, 13 (
KJV
, “… over and above”). See
ABUNDANCE
, B, No. 1.