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passions, Rom. 7:5; (i) the spirit of the Evil One, Eph. 2:2; (j) the mystery of iniquity, 2
Thess. 2:7.”*
To these may be added (k) the active response of believers to the inworking of God,
Phil. 2:13b,
RV
, “to work (for),”
KJV
, “to do (of)”; (1) the supplication of the righteous,
Jas. 5:16,
RV
, “in its working” (
KJV
, “effectual fervent”).
4.
(
!
, 4160), “to do,” is rendered “to work” in Matt. 20:12,
KJV
(
RV
,
“spent”); Acts 15:12, “had wrought”; 19:11; 21:19; Heb. 13:21; Rev. 16:14; 19:20; 21:27,
KJV
(
RV
, “maketh”; marg., “doeth”). See
DO
.
5.
$
(
$ !
, 4903), “to work with or together” (
$
), occurs in Mark
16:20; Rom. 8:28, “work together”; 1 Cor. 16:16, “helpeth with”; 2 Cor. 6:1, “workers
together,” present participle, “working together”; the “
(
B
” represents nothing in
the Greek; Jas. 2:22, “wrought with.” See
HELP
.¶
6.
(
&
, 1096), “to become, take place,” is rendered “wrought” in Mark
6:2; Acts 5:12, “were … wrought.”
WORKER, WORKFELLOW, FELLOWWORKERS, WORKMAN
1.
(
#$ 1
, 2040) is translated “workers” in Luke 13:27 (“of iniquity”); 2
Cor. 11:13 (“deceitful”); Phil. 3:2 (“evil”); “workman,” Matt. 10:10,
KJV
(
RV
, “laborer”);
“workman,” 2 Tim. 2:15; “workmen,” Acts 19:25. See
LABORER
.
2.
$
(
$
, 4904) denotes “a worker with,” and is rendered “workfellow”
in Rom. 16:21,
KJV
,
RV
, “fellow worker”; in Col. 4:11, “fellow workers” (see
RV
). See the
RV
, “God’s fellow workers,” in 1 Cor. 3:9. See
COMPANION
,
HELPER
,
LABORER
,
: !
Note:
For “workers at home,” Titus 2:5, see
HOME
, B.
WORKING
1.
(
#
!$
, 1753) (Eng., “energy”) is used (1) of the “power” of God, (a)
in the resurrection of Christ, Eph. 1:19; Col. 2:12,
RV
, “working” (
KJV
, “operation”); (b)
in the call and enduement of Paul, Eph. 3:7; Col. 1:29; (c) in His retributive dealings in
sending “a working of error” (
KJV
, “strong delusion”) upon those under the rule of the
Man of Sin who receive not the love of the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness, 2
Thess. 2:11; (2) of the “power” of Christ (a) generally, Phil. 3:21; (b) in the church,
individually, Eph. 4:16; (3) of the power of Satan in energizing the Man of Sin in his
“parousia,” 2 Thess. 2:9, “Coming.”¶
2.
(
#
!$
, 1755), “what is wrought,” the effect produced by No. 1,
occurs in 1 Cor. 12:6,
RV
, “workings” (
KJV
, “operations”); v. 10.¶
For
WORKMANSHIP
see
MADE
, B
WORLD
1.
(
, 2889), primarily “order, arrangement, ornament, adornment” (1
Pet. 3:3, see
ADORN
, B), is used to denote (a) the “earth,” e.g., Matt. 13:35; John 21:25;
Acts 17:24; Rom. 1:20 (probably here the universe: it had this meaning among the
Greeks, owing to the order observable in it); 1 Tim. 6:7; Heb. 4:3; 9:26; (b) the “earth” in
contrast with Heaven, 1 John 3:17 (perhaps also Rom. 4:13); (c) by metonymy, the
* From
Notes on Galatians,
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 114, 115.