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1.
(
&
, 3062), “remaining” (for which see
REMNANT
), is frequently used to
mean “the rest,” and is generally so translated in the
RV
(
KJV
, “others” in Luke 8:10; Acts
28:9; Eph. 2:3; 1 Thess. 4:13; 5:6; 1 Tim. 5:20;
KJV
, “other” in Luke 18:11; Acts 17:9;
Rom. 1:13; 2 Cor. 12:13; 13:2; Gal. 2:13; Phil. 1:13; 4:3); the neut. plur., lit., “remaining
things,” is used in Luke 12:26; 1 Cor. 11:34.
2.
(
# &
, 1954), signifying “still left, left over” ( , “over,” and No.
1), is used in the neuter with the article in 1 Pet. 4:2, “the rest (of your time).”¶
For
RESTITUTION
see
RESTORATION
RESTLESS
(
1
, 182), “unsettled, unstable, disorderly” ( , negative,
, “to set in order”), is translated “unstable” in Jas. 1:8; “restless” in 3:8,
RV
[in
the latter, the
KJV
“unruly” represents the word
, signifying “that cannot be
restrained” ( , negative,
, “to hold down, restrain”). In the Sept., Job 31:11.¶].
See
UNRULY
,
UNSTABLE
.¶ In the Sept., Isa. 54:11.¶
RESTORATION
(
1
, 605), from
, “back, again,”
, “to set in
order,” is used in Acts 3:21,
RV
, “restoration” (
KJV
, “restitution”). See under
REGENERATION
, concerning Israel in its regenerated state hereafter. In the papyri it is used
of a temple cell of a goddess, a “repair” of a public way, the “restoration” of estates to
rightful owners, a “balancing” of accounts. Apart from papyri illustrations the word is
found in an Egyptian reference to a consummating agreement of the world’s cyclical
periods, an idea somewhat similar to that in the Acts passage (Moulton and Milligan).¶
RESTORE
1.
(
&
, 591), “to give back,” is translated “I restore” in Luke 19:8.
See
DELIVER
, A, No. 3.
2.
or the alternative form
(
&
, 600) is used
(a) of “restoration” to a former condition of health Matt. 12:13; Mark 3:5; 8:25; Luke
6:10; (b) of the divine “restoration” of Israel and conditions affected by it, including the
renewal of the covenant broken by them, Matt. 17:11; Mark 9:12; Acts 1:6; (c) of
“giving” or “bringing” a person back, Heb. 13:19.¶ In the papyri it is used of financial
restitution, of making good the breaking of a stone by a workman by his substituting
another, of the reclamation of land, etc. (Moulton and Milligan).
3.
(
$ &
, 2675), “to mend, to furnish completely,” is translated
“restore” in Gal. 6:1, metaphorically, of the “restoration,” by those who are spiritual, of
one overtaken in a trespass, such a one being as a dislocated member of the spiritual
body. The tense is the continuous present, suggesting the necessity for patience and
perseverance in the process. See
FIT
,
MEND
,
PERFECT
.
RESTRAIN
1.
$
(
"
, 2664); See
REST
B, No. 2.
2.
(
!
, 2722), “to hold fast or down,” is translated “restraineth” in 2
Thess. 2:6 and 7. In v. 6 lawlessness is spoken of as being “restrained” in its