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of disowning “the hidden things of shame.”¶ In the Sept. of 1 Kings 11:2 it signifies “to
forbid,” a meaning found in the papyri. The meaning “to renounce” may therefore carry
with it the thought of forbidding the approach of the things disowned.
2.
(
1
, 657), “to set apart, to appoint,” a meaning found in the
papyri ( , from,
, “to arrange”), is used in the middle voice in the sense either of
“taking leave of,” e.g., Acts 18:18, or “forsaking,” Luke 14:33,
RV
, “renounceth” (
KJV
“forsaketh”). See
FORSAKE
,
LEAVE
.
REPAY
1.
(
&
, 591), “to give back,” is translated “I will repay” in Luke
10:35. See
DELIVER
, A, No. 3,
RECOMPENSE
, B, No. 2,
RENDER
, No. 1.
2.
(
&
, 467), “to give in return for,” is translated “I will
repay” in Rom. 12:19,
KJV
(
RV
, “I will recompense”). See
RECOMPENSE
, B, No. 1,
RENDER
, No. 2.
3.
or
(
&
, 661), signifying “to pay off” ( , “off,”
, “to pay
a fine”), is used in Philem. 19, of Paul’s promise to “repay” whatever Onesimus owed
Philemon, or to whatever extent the runaway slave had wronged his master.¶ The verb is
very common in the papyri, e.g., in a contract of apprenticeship the father has to pay a
forfeit for each day of the son’s absence from work. Moulton and Milligan, who draw
this and other illustrations in the way of “repayment,” point out that “this verb is stronger
than
(No. 1), and carries with it the idea of “repayment” by way of a fine or
punishment, a fact which lends emphasis to its use in Philem. 19.”
REPENT, REPENTANCE
A. Verbs.
1.
(
!
, 3340), lit., “to perceive afterwards” (
, “after,” implying
“change,”
, “to perceive”;
$
, “the mind, the seat of moral reflection”), in contrast
to
, “to perceive beforehand,” hence signifies “to change one’s mind or purpose,”
always, in the NT, involving a change for the better, an amendment, and always, except
in Luke 17:3, 4, of “repentance” from sin. The word is found in the Synoptic Gospels (in
Luke, nine times), in Acts five times, in the Apocalypse twelve times, eight in the
messages to the churches, 2:5 (twice), 16, 21 (twice),
RV
, “she willeth not to repent” (2nd
part); 3:3, 19 (the only churches in those chapters which contain no exhortation in this
respect are those at Smyrna and Philadelphia); elsewhere only in 2 Cor. 12:21. See also
the general
Note
below.
2.
(
!
, 3338),
, as in No. 1, and
, “to care for,” is
used in the passive voice with middle voice sense, signifying “to regret, to repent
oneself,” Matt. 21:29,
RV
, “repented himself”; v. 32,
RV
, “ye did (not) repent yourselves”
(
KJV
, “ye repented not”); 27:3, “repented himself”; 2 Cor. 7:8 (twice),
RV
, “regret” in
each case; Heb. 7:21, where alone in the NT it is said (negatively) of God.¶
B. Adjective.
(
!
, 278), “not repented of, unregretted” ( , negative, and a
verbal adjective of A, No. 2), signifies “without change of purpose”; it is said (a) of God