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corrects to “defense.” See Acts 22:1; Phil. 1:7, 16; 2 Cor. 7:11, “clearing.” Once it
signifies an “answer,” 1 Pet. 3:15. Cf. B, No. 4. See
CLEARING
,
DEFENSE
.¶
: &
,
, 1 Pet. 3:21, is not, as in the
KJV
, an “answer.” It was used by the
Greeks in a legal sense, as a” demand or appeal.” Baptism is therefore the ground of an
“appeal” by a good conscience against wrong doing.¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
$&
, 611), akin to A, No. 1, above, signifies either “to give
an answer to a question” (its more frequent use) or “to begin to speak,” but always where
something has preceded, either statement or act to which the remarks refer, e.g., Matt.
11:25; Luke 14:3; John 2:18. The
RV
translates by “answered,” e.g., Matt. 28:5; Mark
12:35; Luke 3:16, where some have suggested “began to say” or “uttered solemnly,”
whereas the speaker is replying to the unuttered thought or feeling of those addressed by
him.
2.
(
$&
, 470),
, “against,” and No. 1, a strengthened
form, “to answer by contradiction, to reply against,” is found in Luke 14:6 and Rom.
9:20.¶
3.
$
(
%
1
, 5274) signifies (a) “to take or bear up from beneath,”
Acts 1:9; (b) “to receive,” 3 John 8; (c) “to suppose,” Luke 7:43; Acts 2:15; (d) “to catch
up (in speech), to answer,” Luke 10:30; in sense (d) it indicates that a person follows
what another has said, either by controverting or supplementing it. See
RECEIVE
,
SUPPOSE
.¶
4.
(
!
, 626), cf. A, No. 4, lit., “to talk oneself off from” ( ,
“from,”
, “to speak”), “to answer by way of making a defense for oneself” (besides
its meaning “to excuse,” Rom. 2:15; 2 Cor. 12:19), is translated “answer” in Luke 12:11;
21:14; in Acts 19:33,
KJV
and
RV
both have “made defense”; in Acts 24:10; 25:8; 26:1-2,
the
RV
has the verb to make a defense, for the
KJV
, “to answer,” and in 26:24 for the
KJV
,
“spake for himself.” See
DEFENSE
,
EXCUSE
,
SPEAK
.¶
5.
(
&
, 483), “to speak against,” is rendered “answering again” in the
KJV
of Titus 2:9 (
RV
, “gainsaying”). See
CONTRADICT
,
DENY
,
GAINSAY
,
SPEAK
.
6.
$
(
!
, 4960), lit., “to be in the same line or row with” (
$
,
“with,”
, “a row”), is translated “answereth to” in Gal. 4:25.¶
Note:
Cf.
, “to walk” (in line), 5:25; 6:16. For
$ $
, rendered to answer
in Acts 12:13,
RV
, see
HEARKEN
, No. 1,
Note
.
ANTICHRIST
(
& $
, 500) can mean either “against Christ” or “instead of
Christ,” or perhaps, combining the two, “one who, assuming the guise of Christ, opposes
Christ” (Westcott). The word is found only in John’s epistles, (a) of the many
“antichrists” who are forerunners of the “Antichrist” himself, 1 John 2:18, 22; 2 John 7;
(b) of the evil power which already operates anticipatively of the “Antichrist,” 1 John
4:3.¶
What the apostle says of him so closely resembles what he says of the first beast in
Rev. 13, and what the apostle Paul says of the Man of Sin in 2 Thess. 2, that the same